Sounds neat. I think it would make more sense to frame a ‘public non-legislation-enacting non-official-electing vote’ as a public opinion poll. Politicians pay attention to opinion polls! Opinion polls matter! Framing an opinion poll as a weird sort of transferable ineffective vote is just confusing and detracts from the genuine value in the idea.
I bet I’d enjoy answering some of these opinion polls. Too bad I don’t and won’t have a Twitter/X account. This would seem much more interesting to me if it could make a digital twin for me from my writing here on LessWrong, or out of arbitrary documents I uploaded to my account on your site for that express purpose.
Thanks for the feedback Nathan! We’ll definitely consider framing it as public opinion polls—you’re right that it could be more impactful and less confusing.
Regarding Twitter/X, we plan to add normal user/email login. We initially used Twitter login to simplify things and allow public figures to manage their content. But we’ll definitely expand login options.
And allowing users to create digital twins from LessWrong posts and uploaded documents is a fantastic idea! We’ll definitely explore that, thanks for the suggestion!
Sounds neat. I think it would make more sense to frame a ‘public non-legislation-enacting non-official-electing vote’ as a public opinion poll. Politicians pay attention to opinion polls! Opinion polls matter! Framing an opinion poll as a weird sort of transferable ineffective vote is just confusing and detracts from the genuine value in the idea.
I bet I’d enjoy answering some of these opinion polls. Too bad I don’t and won’t have a Twitter/X account. This would seem much more interesting to me if it could make a digital twin for me from my writing here on LessWrong, or out of arbitrary documents I uploaded to my account on your site for that express purpose.
Done! The website and LessWrong post now use “public opinion poll” instead of “voting”. Thanks again for the suggestion, @Nathan Helm-Burger!
Thanks for the feedback Nathan! We’ll definitely consider framing it as public opinion polls—you’re right that it could be more impactful and less confusing.
Regarding Twitter/X, we plan to add normal user/email login. We initially used Twitter login to simplify things and allow public figures to manage their content. But we’ll definitely expand login options.
And allowing users to create digital twins from LessWrong posts and uploaded documents is a fantastic idea! We’ll definitely explore that, thanks for the suggestion!