I’ve read part way through the article. The first paragraph seemed to be carrying on a continuing conversation (John Searle comes to mind). Then it seemed to change direction abruptly, addressing a problem in mechanism design, namely how to assign payoffs so as to incentivise an agent in a certain game to be honest about his predictions.
These are interesting topics, but I struggle to see the relevance.
EY’s article is also very long. I haven’t read it to the end. Can you point out where to look or, better, summarise the point you were making?
I or Habryka might be able to summarize the key points sometime later, but one of the important bits here is that LessWrong is generally a site where people are expected to have read through the sequences (not necessarily meaning that you have to right away, they are indeed super long. But if you’re going to pose questions that are answered in the sequences, longterm users will probably ask that you read them before putting in time clarifying misunderstandings)
(I realize this is a huge ask, but the site is sort of built around the notion that we build knowledge over time, rather than rehashing the same arguments over and over. This does mean accumulating more and more background reading, alas. We do have projects underway to distill the background reading into smaller chunks but it’s an ongoing process)
Raemon, I understand your remark. But I’ve detected another problem. I’ve dropped the ball by posting my reply to the wrong remark. So, I’m going to have to do some cutting and pasting. Please bear with me.
The EY article really is super long (but interesting) and seems to go all over the place. I’d like to do habryka the courtesy of an answer reasonably promptly. I hope I’m not out of order by asking habryka for guidance about what is on his mind.
I’m gratified to see my humble contribution receive attention, including from you. I’m learning. So thanks.
This is my first independent posting (I’ve commented before) and I didn’t notice it appearing in the front page “latest posts”. I understand you are a LW organisor. Can you help me understand the trigger criteria for an article to appear under “latest posts”? Thanks a lot! JH
Latest Posts follows a hackernews algorithm, where things appear in Latest Posts based on how much karma they have, and how recent they are. Your post has relatively low karma (most likely because the topic wasn’t that novel for LW readers), so it probably appeared for a few hours in the Latest Posts column and then eventually moved off the bottom of the page.
(By now, a 4 days later, it most likely is appearing in Latest Posts but you have to click ‘load more’ many times before it’ll show up)
Help me out here, habryka.
I’ve read part way through the article. The first paragraph seemed to be carrying on a continuing conversation (John Searle comes to mind). Then it seemed to change direction abruptly, addressing a problem in mechanism design, namely how to assign payoffs so as to incentivise an agent in a certain game to be honest about his predictions.
These are interesting topics, but I struggle to see the relevance.
EY’s article is also very long. I haven’t read it to the end. Can you point out where to look or, better, summarise the point you were making?
Thanks a lot!
I or Habryka might be able to summarize the key points sometime later, but one of the important bits here is that LessWrong is generally a site where people are expected to have read through the sequences (not necessarily meaning that you have to right away, they are indeed super long. But if you’re going to pose questions that are answered in the sequences, longterm users will probably ask that you read them before putting in time clarifying misunderstandings)
(I realize this is a huge ask, but the site is sort of built around the notion that we build knowledge over time, rather than rehashing the same arguments over and over. This does mean accumulating more and more background reading, alas. We do have projects underway to distill the background reading into smaller chunks but it’s an ongoing process)
Raemon, I understand your remark. But I’ve detected another problem. I’ve dropped the ball by posting my reply to the wrong remark. So, I’m going to have to do some cutting and pasting. Please bear with me.
The EY article really is super long (but interesting) and seems to go all over the place. I’d like to do habryka the courtesy of an answer reasonably promptly. I hope I’m not out of order by asking habryka for guidance about what is on his mind.
HI Raemon,
I’m gratified to see my humble contribution receive attention, including from you. I’m learning. So thanks.
This is my first independent posting (I’ve commented before) and I didn’t notice it appearing in the front page “latest posts”. I understand you are a LW organisor. Can you help me understand the trigger criteria for an article to appear under “latest posts”? Thanks a lot! JH
Latest Posts follows a hackernews algorithm, where things appear in Latest Posts based on how much karma they have, and how recent they are. Your post has relatively low karma (most likely because the topic wasn’t that novel for LW readers), so it probably appeared for a few hours in the Latest Posts column and then eventually moved off the bottom of the page.
(By now, a 4 days later, it most likely is appearing in Latest Posts but you have to click ‘load more’ many times before it’ll show up)