August 2019 Meetup: Field Trip: Depolarizing the Politics Within

1. A Human’s Guide to Words:

What are words, how are they useful, how can they be wrong, how can we avoid being wrong?

Drawn from this sequence: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/SGB7Y5WERh4skwtnb

2. Inside/outside views :

People are oftentimes bad at estimation. This can oftentimes be improved by reference class forecasting (“Outside view”).

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPm5LTwHrvBJCa9h5/planning-fallacy

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Outside_view

How should we weight different outside views against our inside view? When should we favor some over the others?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pqoxE3AGMbse68dvb/the-outside-view-s-domain

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/w9KWNWFTXivjJ7rjF/the-weak-inside-view

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iyRpsScBa6y4rduEt/model-combination-and-adjustment