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Feedback Loops.md

··· 18 18 - Poor kids becoming rich adults. Then, they raise rich kids that don't share the same [[Values]] that made the parents rich. 19 19 - Artist making musing while they experience life without fame. Once fame gets in they don't have the same life experience and can't produce the same type of music. 20 20 - [The Mongol Empire was an unification of many nomadic tribes. They were unstoppable for a while until they started to become more civilized. The thing that made them unstoppable (nomadic and "uncivilized") stopped being a part of their [[Culture]] and the empire began to break down.](https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-wrath-of-the-khans-series/) 21 21 + - The [[Science#Metascience]] learning loop: trial new social processes → evaluate effectiveness → scale successful approaches → amplify transformative changes. A positive feedback loop designed to systematically improve how science itself operates.

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Impact Evaluators.md

··· 246 246 - [Deep Funding is a Special Case of Generalized Impact Evaluators](https://hackmd.io/@dwddao/HypnqpQKke) 247 247 - [An Analysis of Pairwise Preference](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3359677) 248 248 - [Analysing public goods games using reinforcement learning: effect of increasing group size on cooperation](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241195) 249 249 + - [CrowdTruth 2.0: Quality Metrics for Crowdsourcing with Disagreement](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.06080)

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Science.md

··· 7 7 - Science itself isn't "true". It's a constantly refining process used to uncover truths based in material reality and that process is still full of mistakes. Do not treat science as a dogma, but rather as a refining process to uncover truths about reality. 8 8 - [Science is not clearly visible, like a comet bearing down on you](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/movie-review-dont-look-up). Science is like the Gnostic God. It exists, somewhere out there, perfect in itself. It is pure and right and beautiful. If you could hear it, it would certainly speak Truth. Yet here we are, in the stupid material universe, seeing through a glass darkly. Good sometimes looks like evil, evil often looks like good, and there's some jerk with the head of a lion and the body of a snake psyching us out at every turn. 9 9 10 10 + ## Metascience 11 11 + 12 12 + Metascience is the science of science itself - studying how scientific research is conducted and how it can be improved. It offers frameworks for transforming the social processes of science through imaginative design and entrepreneurial action. 13 13 + 14 14 + - [Science's discovery ecosystem is currently in near stasis, with strong barriers preventing meaningful change](https://scienceplusplus.org/metascience/index.html). The social processes of science can be dramatically improved through systematic intervention. 15 15 + - Metascience operates as a three-part discipline combining imaginative design practice (envisioning radical alternatives), entrepreneurial discipline (building new [[Organizations|organizations]] and processes), and research field (rigorously evaluating effectiveness). 16 16 + - The **Metascience Learning Loop** provides a framework for systematic improvement: trial new social processes → evaluate effectiveness → scale successful approaches → amplify transformative changes. This mirrors [[Experimentation]] principles but applied to scientific institutions themselves. 17 17 + - Key bottlenecks inhibiting scientific change include centralization of control, lack of clear change ownership, strong network effects, and absence of natural growth [[Feedback Loops]]. 18 18 + - You can unlock science's potential by exploring radical institutional alternatives, developing generative heuristics to detect "intellectual dark matter," and taking entrepreneurial approaches to building new research [[Organizations]]. 19 19 + - Scientific [[Coordination]] problems are a specific manifestation of broader coordination challenges - addressing them requires both structural diversity and decentralized experimentation. 20 20 + 10 21 ## Open Science Resources 11 22 12 23 - [[Open Data]].

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Talking.md

··· 20 20 - Combining walking with talking might be effective for deep conversations. You don't keep eye contact but nevertheless you are very close. For some topics it helps to just talk without having to look someone in the eye. Long pauses are not a problem because there is the landscape passing by that removes the awkwardness. 21 21 - [Whenever you drop below a certain level of talking with someone, friction accumulates. You get more stuck in our ways, You get stressed and don't have time to maintain the shared context necessary to understand each other.](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/making-a-home-together) 22 22 23 23 - ## [Interesting Questions](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K_iFxFt9lh1i0mxKRIhOSd2e8X1LNvxnihbChKXhyOc/mobilebasic) 23 23 + ## Interesting Questions 24 24 25 25 - - Use FORD (Family, Occupation, Recreation, Dreams) as fallback topics. 26 26 - - What's the change you'd do to the current political system? 27 27 - - Why hasn't happened? 25 25 + - There are [many list with interesting questions](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K_iFxFt9lh1i0mxKRIhOSd2e8X1LNvxnihbChKXhyOc/mobilebasic) 26 26 + - Ask people about their interests and challenges 27 27 + - What topics have you been interested in lately? 28 28 + - What are the biggest problems you are facing around X? 29 29 + - Direct random questions might work for some people! 30 30 + - What's the change you'd do to the current political system? Why hasn't happened? 28 31 - [[Thought Experiments]] 29 29 - - Will you eat synthetic meat? 30 32 - [Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics](https://dynomight.net/arguments/). [More](https://dynomight.substack.com/p/arguments-2). And [even more](https://dynomight.substack.com/p/arguments-3). 31 33 - Cognitive Reflection Test 32 34 - What is your life default stress/drama level 1 to 10? Where are you now?