Yes yes, more strength to this where it’s tractable and possible backfires are well understood and mitigated/avoided!
One adjacent category which I think is helpful to consider explicitly (I think you have it implicit here) is ‘well-informedness’, which I motion is distinct from ‘intelligence’ or ‘wisdom’. One could be quite wise and intelligent but crippled or even misdirected if the information available/salient is limited or biased. Perhaps this is countered by an understanding of one’s own intellectual and cognitive biases, leading to appropriate (‘wise’) choices of information-gathering behaviour to act against possible bias? But perhaps there are other levers to push which act on this category effectively.
To the extent that you think long-run trajectories will be influenced by few specific decision-making entities, it could be extremely valuable to identify, and improve the epistemics and general wisdom (and benevolence) of those entities. To the extent that you think long-run trajectories will be influenced by the interactions of many cooperating and competing decision-making entities, it could be more important to improve mechanisms for coordination, especially coordination against activities which destroy value. Well-informedness may be particularly relevant in the latter case.
One adjacent category which I think is helpful to consider explicitly (I think you have it implicit here) is ‘well-informedness’, which I motion is distinct from ‘intelligence’ or ‘wisdom’.
That’s an interesting take.
When I was thinking about “wisdom”, I was assuming it would include the useful parts of “well-informedness”, or maybe, “knowledge”. I considered using other terms, like “wisdom and intelligence and knowledge”, but that got to be a bit much.
I agree it’s still useful to flag that such narrow notions as “well informedness” are useful.
Yes yes, more strength to this where it’s tractable and possible backfires are well understood and mitigated/avoided!
One adjacent category which I think is helpful to consider explicitly (I think you have it implicit here) is ‘well-informedness’, which I motion is distinct from ‘intelligence’ or ‘wisdom’. One could be quite wise and intelligent but crippled or even misdirected if the information available/salient is limited or biased. Perhaps this is countered by an understanding of one’s own intellectual and cognitive biases, leading to appropriate (‘wise’) choices of information-gathering behaviour to act against possible bias? But perhaps there are other levers to push which act on this category effectively.
To the extent that you think long-run trajectories will be influenced by few specific decision-making entities, it could be extremely valuable to identify, and improve the epistemics and general wisdom (and benevolence) of those entities. To the extent that you think long-run trajectories will be influenced by the interactions of many cooperating and competing decision-making entities, it could be more important to improve mechanisms for coordination, especially coordination against activities which destroy value. Well-informedness may be particularly relevant in the latter case.
That’s an interesting take.
When I was thinking about “wisdom”, I was assuming it would include the useful parts of “well-informedness”, or maybe, “knowledge”. I considered using other terms, like “wisdom and intelligence and knowledge”, but that got to be a bit much.
I agree it’s still useful to flag that such narrow notions as “well informedness” are useful.