in thread "Not Superintelligence; Supercoordination": This has some overlap with Balaji's Network State proposal, except that in your variant, the goal is not to carve out one or more bits of land for sovereignty, but rather to act as something like a fraternal society on steroids within an existing state. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 44 This has some overla (view hidden) 44 This was the program of Ramon Llull (1232–1316) in his Ars Magna, which was an inspiration for Leibniz. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 1212 This was the program (view hidden) 1212 To the extent that one is looking for a formalism that is directly applicable to social science, I think the best starting point is Judea Pearl's Structural Causal Model (SCM), which is basically Bayesian statistics combined with explicit causal modeling. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 44 To the extent that o (view hidden) 44 Eh, it's true that there's been lots of work in logics for modeling dynamic processes, but they're almost never used in practice, and there's good reason for that. Namely, that for practical applications, they're cumbersome beyond usability. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 Eh, it's true that t (view hidden) 66 Causal Inference in Statistics - A Primer, by Judea Pearl, Madelyn Glymour, Nicholas P. Jewell ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 Causal Inference in (view hidden) 66 Many have spoken of "cloning Silicon Valley," although no one has successfully done so. ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 Many have spoken of (view hidden) 66