I’ll try to elucidate the standards underlying my judgement call:
You admitting it was due to an “ugh” field, and me being worried about my dojo-master-decisions making it seem generally acceptable to shy away from your ugh fields. (Which, well, sometimes it certainly is. They’re there for a reason. But not always, and I wanted to build a space where people could confront challenges)
Not conforming to the experiment of “having babble be used to solve one very particular problem in your life”. Instead doing something which seemed more theoretical, and less likely to yield creative solutions to one specific problem. The answered seemed to me in the spirit of babble, but not in the spirit of this week’s challenge. (One might also say that I wanted depth-first and you did a breadth-first search… but I’m not sure that metaphor really holds up)
I don’t think I had made it at all explicit or clear to everyone involved that these were actually the standards. But they are the ones I abode by, nonetheless.
So to ‘how “I have a problem of not having problems, what I can do about it?” does’t meet the “high” standard of “What is one problem, that you can find 50 solutions to?”’ the answer is is was a forbidden type of problem.
In my opinion the submission conforms to “having babble be used to solve one very particular problem in your life”. i don’t understand your interpretation how it would not. I understand that at one point you read it as searching for 50 problems and I tried to explain how itis only one problem and why the answers to this problem can look like problems instead of solutions. Did you understand and agree with this argument step?
One could be worried that Math olympiad scores would be too abstract or too forward looking to count as valid practical questions. Or insomnia would be too psychological or nebolous. However those were given as positive examples or good target problems. If insomnia is good why is aimlessness not good?
I also get a feeling that it is slippery which part is judgement call and which part is principle. I think there might be a pattern going on where promises are given without looking into what carrying out them would mean. If the rule is that a failure nulls out stars and it comes time to actually fail someone and a different rule is followed that seems like imagining how it would be to fail someone didn’t get that much prethought. Then if in a different aspects we go “sorry I have to do this because of rule consistency” it sounds a lot more hollow and is more suspicious just to be an excuse. We can’t be perfectly reflectived of all our implications of principles, some have to be just played out. But there is a definite carefullness in a style that tries to promise very little and keep very much. The conduct here is making very much sound about all kinds of stuff, some of them followed, some of them not. Nobody got into trouble for not upvoting stuff enough or making encouraging posts, so that was potentially just empty air. Being slow and evasive seems like something is trying to evade sunlight.
It is pretty basic lesswrong content to be sad about the state of fact that a lot of students try to guess their teachers password. But I am starting to see how if the words are just empty air it makes sense to follow what they do rather than what they say. If the student gives an answer which the teacher for some reason doesn’t like the teacher has the power to punish for it. Having words have meanings restrictics the behaviour in that one needs to find a justification (which can be an excuse in the case of motivated cognition).
One of the worries about standards in babbles would be that if one follows all the stipulations can they get their submission be judged on their merits? It seems I encountered a situation where not all the stipulations were published in the prompt. So failing to follow an unpublished stipulation isn’t that surprising. But knowing what the extra stipulations are it still seems that the submission was erroenously marked as failing those stipulations. So either there are yet more hidden stipulations or the stipulations are not in fact being followed.
From 2 months ago
“I think you answered the question: “What are 50 problems I could solve?” If that would have been the challenge, your submission would have been great” … “The challenge, though, asked “What is one problem, that you can find 50 solutions to?”
“Wouldn’t the answer to “What are 50 problems I could solve?” also answer “I have a problem of not having problems, what I can do about it?”″… “With the problem of “I feel aimless” then aquiring an aim is a solution and not a problem in that regard.” … “Is not disinterest in your own life not a valid problem?”
This discussion has not moved much forward by the recent reply spurt. Because there was no clear answer I tried to extract to what extent the question was answered. If you didn’t answer the question please do. I think I addressed the numericity problem (50 blue answers) but now it seemed that there was practicality problem (giving a red answer when asked for a blue answer). The point of is to try to understand how I failed the standard and my current understanding is that I didn’t and I was errenously counted to do so or that the standards keep moving so much that it is not a true question about standards.
FWIW, I just posted [a new challenge-like thing](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5HTaBuxRyRSc4mHnP/thread-for-making-2019-review-accountability-commitments), and following your feedback, among others, I tried making the stakes and norms clearer upfront, and be more explicit about what people are opting in to.
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I’ll try to elucidate the standards underlying my judgement call:
You admitting it was due to an “ugh” field, and me being worried about my dojo-master-decisions making it seem generally acceptable to shy away from your ugh fields. (Which, well, sometimes it certainly is. They’re there for a reason. But not always, and I wanted to build a space where people could confront challenges)
Not conforming to the experiment of “having babble be used to solve one very particular problem in your life”. Instead doing something which seemed more theoretical, and less likely to yield creative solutions to one specific problem. The answered seemed to me in the spirit of babble, but not in the spirit of this week’s challenge. (One might also say that I wanted depth-first and you did a breadth-first search… but I’m not sure that metaphor really holds up)
I don’t think I had made it at all explicit or clear to everyone involved that these were actually the standards. But they are the ones I abode by, nonetheless.
So to ‘how “I have a problem of not having problems, what I can do about it?” does’t meet the “high” standard of “What is one problem, that you can find 50 solutions to?”’ the answer is is was a forbidden type of problem.
Not sure I understand what you mean here.
In my opinion the submission conforms to “having babble be used to solve one very particular problem in your life”. i don’t understand your interpretation how it would not. I understand that at one point you read it as searching for 50 problems and I tried to explain how itis only one problem and why the answers to this problem can look like problems instead of solutions. Did you understand and agree with this argument step?
One could be worried that Math olympiad scores would be too abstract or too forward looking to count as valid practical questions. Or insomnia would be too psychological or nebolous. However those were given as positive examples or good target problems. If insomnia is good why is aimlessness not good?
I also get a feeling that it is slippery which part is judgement call and which part is principle. I think there might be a pattern going on where promises are given without looking into what carrying out them would mean. If the rule is that a failure nulls out stars and it comes time to actually fail someone and a different rule is followed that seems like imagining how it would be to fail someone didn’t get that much prethought. Then if in a different aspects we go “sorry I have to do this because of rule consistency” it sounds a lot more hollow and is more suspicious just to be an excuse. We can’t be perfectly reflectived of all our implications of principles, some have to be just played out. But there is a definite carefullness in a style that tries to promise very little and keep very much. The conduct here is making very much sound about all kinds of stuff, some of them followed, some of them not. Nobody got into trouble for not upvoting stuff enough or making encouraging posts, so that was potentially just empty air. Being slow and evasive seems like something is trying to evade sunlight.
It is pretty basic lesswrong content to be sad about the state of fact that a lot of students try to guess their teachers password. But I am starting to see how if the words are just empty air it makes sense to follow what they do rather than what they say. If the student gives an answer which the teacher for some reason doesn’t like the teacher has the power to punish for it. Having words have meanings restrictics the behaviour in that one needs to find a justification (which can be an excuse in the case of motivated cognition).
One of the worries about standards in babbles would be that if one follows all the stipulations can they get their submission be judged on their merits? It seems I encountered a situation where not all the stipulations were published in the prompt. So failing to follow an unpublished stipulation isn’t that surprising. But knowing what the extra stipulations are it still seems that the submission was erroenously marked as failing those stipulations. So either there are yet more hidden stipulations or the stipulations are not in fact being followed.
From 2 months ago
“I think you answered the question: “What are 50 problems I could solve?” If that would have been the challenge, your submission would have been great” … “The challenge, though, asked “What is one problem, that you can find 50 solutions to?”
“Wouldn’t the answer to “What are 50 problems I could solve?” also answer “I have a problem of not having problems, what I can do about it?”″… “With the problem of “I feel aimless” then aquiring an aim is a solution and not a problem in that regard.” … “Is not disinterest in your own life not a valid problem?”
This discussion has not moved much forward by the recent reply spurt. Because there was no clear answer I tried to extract to what extent the question was answered. If you didn’t answer the question please do. I think I addressed the numericity problem (50 blue answers) but now it seemed that there was practicality problem (giving a red answer when asked for a blue answer). The point of is to try to understand how I failed the standard and my current understanding is that I didn’t and I was errenously counted to do so or that the standards keep moving so much that it is not a true question about standards.