Draft

Lived experience and deductions from it

December 20, 2021 — June 23, 2022

adversarial
bounded compute
communicating
cooperation
culture
ethics
mind
sociology
wonk

Assumed audience:

The intermittently voiced

A placeholder to remind me to discuss the challenges of calibrating the often-discounted evidence of the downtrodden. Via goals of curiosity, openness, and compassion regarding the important evidence given by the experience of other humans generally.

I wish to discuss this in terms of

  1. the AUC of classification theory, and
  2. also think about it strategically as a mechanism problem.
Figure 1

1 Only people who live in a community should have opinions about a community

This doesn’t necessarily have the expected consequences. For example, in the US the (most?) prominent Black economists seem critical of race-based quotas (Glenn Loury and Thomas Sowell)