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. 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.6 3.6 This has some overla (view hidden) log in to judge received 3.6 3.6 This was the program of Ramon Llull (1232–1316) in his Ars Magna, which was an inspiration for Leibniz.... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 10.5 10.5 This was the program (view hidden) log in to judge received 10.5 10.5 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. ... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 3.6 3.6 To the extent that o (view hidden) log in to judge received 3.6 3.6 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.... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0 Eh, it's true that t (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0 Causal Inference in Statistics - A Primer, by Judea Pearl, Madelyn Glymour, Nicholas P. Jewell... 6mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0 Causal Inference in (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.0 5.0 Many have spoken of "cloning Silicon Valley," although no one has successfully done so.... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.6 5.6 Many have spoken of (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.6 5.6