Inadequate Equilibria: Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky | Book Club

Full Title: Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Suggested by: Sandra C
Pages to read: 162
ISBN: 9781939311221 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9781939311191 (Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What are efficient markets / civilizations?
•What makes markets / civilizations inadequate?
•How do civilizations get stuck in an inadequate system?
•How can inadequate systems be fixed?
•What are the benefits or consequences of decision makers trying to change the system?
•Can systems be exploited?
•How to think about being better than civilizational results?
•What is Moloch’s Toolbox?
•Why blame Moloch?
•What is Nash equilibrium?
•How do people tell the epistemic standards of others?
•How much effort does it take to resolve a civilization inadequacy problem?
•What is Pareto-optimal?
•What does the price represent?
•How can SAD be cured? How did the author approach SAD ideas?
•Why are babies dying due to nutrition problems?
•What do scientist do? What is the purpose of subclasses of scientists, the suggesters and replicators?
•What research gets promoted?
•What is a two-factor market?
•What is the value of a degree?
•Why and how to certify people?
•What do people want from medicine?
•What are wasted votes?
•Which entrepreneurs do venture capitalists take?
•Why not use Velcro for shoes?
•Which candidates do newspapers follow?
•What is the Overton window?
•How do political decisions change?
•Do people trust the newspapers?
•Should you defer to doctors?
•What is modest epistemology?
•Is there a problem with theoreticism? How does theoreticism contrast with empiricism?
•Is it better to be a hedgehog or a fox?
•When to test a product?
•Does majority belief makes something true?
•What is status regulation?
•What is the typical mind fallacy?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.