Bindings and assurances
post by Benquo · 2017-03-13T17:06:53.672Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 2 commentsThis is a link post for http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bindings-and-assurances/
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comment by gjm · 2017-03-14T11:38:17.819Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Super-brief sketchy summary for those wondering whether to follow the link (I do wish there were a community norm that people making link posts provide such summaries):
Link is to a blog-post by Benquo, which considers what sort of thing a pledge or promise is, what it does, and how to understand it. (Context: recent discussion among Effective Altruists of the "Giving What We Can" pledge and how strong a commitment it should be understood as.) Proposes that a key way of thinking about a pledge is as a prediction of future behaviour on which others may rely; so when considering whether to make such a pledge you should consider how confidently you can make that prediction.
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