[ExI] outrage

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2016-06-17 04:53, Dan TheBookMan wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com 
> <mailto:atymes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Are there ways to measure and quantize outrage?  What are the units 
>> of measurement of outrage?
>
> I don't know, but if no one knows then how can we seriously talk about 
> outrage being on the rise now?

Personal experience is fallible, but it is still data. Another source of 
data is observable actions: current student protests against too free 
expression on campus, did they occur in the 80s or 90s? How many riots 
were triggered in different decades by foreign news? How many lawsuits 
over emotional distress?

I think that can be used to measure outrage. We may also run sentiment 
analysis on newspaper editorials and letters to the editor.


-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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