{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Draft 1 of\u00a0\u201cOpen Problems in Rationality\u201d", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164818497283/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://evolution-is-just-a-theorem.tumblr.com/post/164356660612/draft-1-of-open-problems-in-rationality\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">evolution-is-just-a-theorem</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>This is a draft (obviously).</p><h2>Open Problems in Rationality</h2><p>I\u2019m not claiming that any of these problems are easy, unique to rationalists, or even solvable.</p><ol><li>Long term follow through. Given a person who wants to make a long term change (in their habits, lifestyle, etc.) how do you cause them to actually do it.</li>\n<li>How do we get depressed people care? (Maybe should just be\u00a0\u201cpeople with mental health issues?\u201d Do anxious people find it much harder to create appointments?</li>\n<li>How do we detect completely broken personal epistemologies?</li>\n<li>Internalizing insight: Given a large amount of plausibly useful advice/wisdom/insights, how does one internalize it? How does one turn it into changes in behavior or thought patterns?</li>\n<li>Novel intervention effect: New interventions start out very successful, then rapidly regress to uselessness.</li>\n<li>Causing things to happen: if someone commits to doing a thing / causing it to happen, there is still an excellent chance that thing will not happen, even if doing it is relatively trivial.</li><li>Predictions: how do we become more accurate forecasters?</li>\n</ol></blockquote>\n\n<p>you join with all the other overdetermined currents reinventing/reviving the (post-)Christian church and reinvent/revive the (post-)Christian church, probably</p>"}