March 2020 Meetup: Democracy as an Epistemic System

Chicago Rationalist—Topic List Archive

1. Is democracy a system which produces pervasive error in our society? i.e. moldbug strikes again (https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/)
2. Should proponents of free markets oppose capitalism? (chapters 4 and 9 of this book: http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2)
3. What is an optimal course of action when you encounter a situation in which you have serious epistemic uncertainty? (lesswrong and ssc)
4. Are theists more pro-social than non-theists? (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3160453)