Alec Campbell

  Improving Institutional Decision Making | Elliot Olds Improving Institutional Decision Making The problem Human brains evolved to be terrible at forming accurate beliefs about politics and big societal issues. We’re all extremely biased and self-deluded. The most respected form of societal decision making (voting) involves a simple aggregation of our highly flawed beliefs. This negatively and significantly impacts almost every aspect of our lives. Similar to how solving AI is a meta-solution because a good enough AI could solve all our other problems, solving political decision making could significantly improve our solutions to all large scale object level problems. The extent of our biases and delusion is vastly underestimated Much of what motivates humans is signaling and tribal politics. We are self deceived about our motivations and lack the ability to introspect to discover what is actually motivating us (see the work of Robert Kurzban on the modularity of the brain). It is...