Take a stereotypical fantasy novel, a textbook on mathematical logic, and Fifty Shades of Grey. Mix them all together and add extra weirdness for spice. The result might look a lot like Planecrash (AKA: Project Lawful), a work of fiction co-written by "Iarwain" (a pen-name of Eliezer Yudkowsky) and "lintamande".
> I have a memory of once reading some rationalist blogger describing the worldview of some politician as: there's no such thing as competence, only loyalty.
I suspect you're referring to this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/28/ssc-endorses-clinton-johnson-or-stein/ - "He lives in a world where there is no such thing as intelligence, only loyalty. If we haven’t solved all of our problems yet, it’s because the Department of Problem-Solving was insufficiently loyal, and didn’t try hard enough. His only promise is to fill that department with loyal people who really want the problem solved."
Thanks for this overview with many interesting game theory pointers.
I reckon Eliezer’s book is not available as a simple Kindle-compatible download? If so, it’s probably by design - the technicalities of reading it as an initiation rite. Only the worthy!
> I have a memory of once reading some rationalist blogger describing the worldview of some politician as: there's no such thing as competence, only loyalty.
I suspect you're referring to this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/28/ssc-endorses-clinton-johnson-or-stein/ - "He lives in a world where there is no such thing as intelligence, only loyalty. If we haven’t solved all of our problems yet, it’s because the Department of Problem-Solving was insufficiently loyal, and didn’t try hard enough. His only promise is to fill that department with loyal people who really want the problem solved."
This was excellent. I hope someday to write a review that is as good. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for this overview with many interesting game theory pointers.
I reckon Eliezer’s book is not available as a simple Kindle-compatible download? If so, it’s probably by design - the technicalities of reading it as an initiation rite. Only the worthy!
See here: https://www.mikescher.com/blog/29/Project_Lawful_ebook
(H/t dirk on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zRHGQ9f6deKbxJSji/review-planecrash?commentId=krKfzYyCJKohypb7K )
Amazing. Thank you for the excellent in-depth review. Definitely going to pull it out of my TBR pile now.