I imagined you would get people to volunteer in advance of Petrov Day and then choose who you trust from the list of volunteers (or trust all of them to collaborate, dealer’s choice)
But I really love the idea of people saying “I care about preserving humanity, I’m committed to the values of prudence and rationality, and I want to take part in observing this holiday”. I would love to see that group of people in action.
I do know that people are busy and easily distracted and probably wouldn’t sign up in advance, even if they would like to participate, based on my past experience of generally getting people to do things.
I do think we could build this list over multiple years though, while I previously thought that maybe the right choice is to just not sign up to volunteer, if you are in favor of the ritual, there is an argument that you should sign up to be a volunteer, because if you don’t we might have to pick someone who is more likely to press the button instead of you, which still creates a decent incentive, and I hadn’t considered before, but am overall still concerned about people just kind of not noticing the email and opt-in process until the day comes and they are sad they weren’t considered (or the ritual doesn’t happen at all because not enough people who are actually unlikely to press the button opted in).
I imagined you would get people to volunteer in advance of Petrov Day and then choose who you trust from the list of volunteers (or trust all of them to collaborate, dealer’s choice)
But I really love the idea of people saying “I care about preserving humanity, I’m committed to the values of prudence and rationality, and I want to take part in observing this holiday”. I would love to see that group of people in action.
I do know that people are busy and easily distracted and probably wouldn’t sign up in advance, even if they would like to participate, based on my past experience of generally getting people to do things.
I do think we could build this list over multiple years though, while I previously thought that maybe the right choice is to just not sign up to volunteer, if you are in favor of the ritual, there is an argument that you should sign up to be a volunteer, because if you don’t we might have to pick someone who is more likely to press the button instead of you, which still creates a decent incentive, and I hadn’t considered before, but am overall still concerned about people just kind of not noticing the email and opt-in process until the day comes and they are sad they weren’t considered (or the ritual doesn’t happen at all because not enough people who are actually unlikely to press the button opted in).