Territory, Maps & Bayes: An Interview with Jacob Falkovich of putanumonit.com

I will be interviewing Jacob Falkovich, a long time Rationalist, who writes the blog putanumonit.com. The topic will be Rationality: Territory, Maps & Bayes. We will be addressing the following questions. I recommend reading up the links to get most out of this conversation on methods of thinking.

1. Why do you call your blog PutaNumOnIt?
   https://putanumonit.com/2015/11/03/002-credo/
2. Can you please talk about Rationality in terms of territory and maps?
   https://putanumonit.com/2018/09/23/territory-and-the-maps/
3. What are the three kinds of Epistemologies or methods of thinking that Scott Alexander talks about?
   https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/08/06/on-first-looking-into-chapmans-pop-bayesianism/
4. What are the two aspects of rationality, epistemic and instrumental, and how are they related?
   https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RcZCwxFiZzE6X7nsv/what-do-we-mean-by-rationality
5. How do you put a number on things concerning people where it is hard to do it? Why do it when it is so hard?
   https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics

And much more. Don’t miss it.

The interview will be followed by General Q&A. Then we will break into groups of 6 to discuss these ideas in detail.

We will be joined by 20+ members of other conversation groups.