Would be nice if the ability to post to Main was restricted to the forum admins/editors and the Discussion articles upvoted 20-30 would automatically move to Main.
Discussion articles upvoted 20-30 would automatically move to Main.
Many 20+ Discussion posts don’t belong in Main, and also giving admins control of what gets promoted from Discussion to Main requires a lot of both power and oversight on the part of the admins. Giving people the option to move their articles from Discussion to Main themselves, after 20 karma, could work, but would make the posting process more complicated for newer people or older people who didn’t get the memo.
Very few posts get +20, only a rare one gets +30, so demoting an occasional outlier would not be a very onerous task. That said, simply restricting the ability to post to Main will stop those with more ego than common sense.
I think Will meant that some posts didn’t belong in main for reasons other than merit. For instance, Vladimir_Nesov’s latest post was based on a great and original idea, had an excellent exposition, and could easily have broken 20 karma points—but he was airing it for discussion, and he’d probably rather not do a top-level post on the idea until he feels it’s ready for that.
“As this has not been upvoted”… if you guys counted up and down votes separately, you would see that this has been upvoted (and down voted too). I guess reporting just a sum helps to bring sense of unity by eliminating feedback on disagreement, and result in a better multi-people happy-death-spiral, as the unknown-origin evidence propagates in cycles, stripped of all information that allows to prevent cyclic updates.
edit: actually, in interest of full disclosure: I’m Dmytry, I at some point decided that this place is not worth talking to (and changed password and email to gibberish), but then I’m still very drawn to trying to analyze the failure, it’s just very interesting. But I am not really getting into explanations much any more.
Though there’s something I do want to explain.
It is clear that Bayesian network should avoid cyclic updates, or else. You should write a working implementation of Bayesian network that handles an inference graph with potential cycles, that’ll give some idea, as well as make it pretty clear that apparently-Bayesian solutions that miss one or other little thing can produce utter rubbish. Other issue is the pruning when generating the hypotheses, if you don’t prune you’ll be very slow and won’t be any more correct at any given time. And if you do (note that you prune by difficulty, by usefulness, just randomly) you have cherry picked selection of propositions (out of enormous sea of possible propositions), then if you update on them ‘correctly’ using Bayes, there could be a few things on which you’ll be very, very wrong. Then those things will feel as if you outsmarted everyone at evaluating those things, and you may end up letting those few things where the method failed define your whole life. (And people will interpret this very uncharitably as well, because we internalized as ‘good’ the methods that protect from this failure mode)
I guess reporting just a sum helps to bring sense of unity by eliminating feedback on disagreement, and result in a better multi-people happy-death-spiral, as the unknown-origin evidence propagates in cycles, stripped of all information that allows to prevent cyclic updates.
You know, you didn’t need to assume the choice to only present the sum was explicitly made, and for bad reasons. I don’t understand it and would much rather see up and down separately. But that explanation is pretty insulting—that they intentionally did it to hide dissent and work contrary to their own stated goals. Seriously?
Come on there’s a post here about using synchronized moves to bring in sense of unity on meetings. Also, I did not say that it was deliberately or explicitly made (what ever that means anyway), just noted what it helps to do. It helps achieve that regardless of whenever that is what you explicitly wanted, what you implicitly wanted, or what you didn’t want at all. edit: And I think it is safe to assume that at some level, anyone wants to see rational people agree, and act together in harmony. The brain does tend to pick means rather unscrupulously though, regardless of high level intentions. Rationalists should know that better than anyone else.
The ‘helps to … and...’ construction really doesn’t convey that ‘it was all a fluke’ thought very distinctly, see? And just before you say it was accidental, you say how people mean it.
And… well, look at “Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)”. It’s pretty devastating (much more incisive than any of the AI researchers’ arguments presented recently), and is sitting at +85 karma after a mere 8 hours.
‘Accidental’, ‘deliberate’, the real word humans do not have such binary distinction. You want people to agree rationally, you end up thinking how to do that, and then you get all the way to the shortcuts that you carefully designed to achieve a bad end state, while thinking good thoughts (you end up with a sort of meaning drift—you work to improve rationality, you work harder, rationality drifts and fuzzes out and now you are down to ideas like lets sign and dance synchronously).
Furthermore, this forum software was NOT written by Eliezer. It is Reddit. It was, matter of factly, designed to maximize irrational-ish behaviour (waste of time online) and it is entirely possible that originally it did not separate the ups and downs to bring sense of unity blah blah blah (which turned out to be unnecessary).
edit: also, read the post he made, it aligns with what i’ve been saying here about AI, even down to the tool-agent distinction. That didn’t really have great effect (not speaking from position of some power).
As this has not been upvoted, I’m moving it to Discussion.
Would be nice if the ability to post to Main was restricted to the forum admins/editors and the Discussion articles upvoted 20-30 would automatically move to Main.
Many 20+ Discussion posts don’t belong in Main, and also giving admins control of what gets promoted from Discussion to Main requires a lot of both power and oversight on the part of the admins. Giving people the option to move their articles from Discussion to Main themselves, after 20 karma, could work, but would make the posting process more complicated for newer people or older people who didn’t get the memo.
Very few posts get +20, only a rare one gets +30, so demoting an occasional outlier would not be a very onerous task. That said, simply restricting the ability to post to Main will stop those with more ego than common sense.
Well, there is a karma threshold.
I think Will meant that some posts didn’t belong in main for reasons other than merit. For instance, Vladimir_Nesov’s latest post was based on a great and original idea, had an excellent exposition, and could easily have broken 20 karma points—but he was airing it for discussion, and he’d probably rather not do a top-level post on the idea until he feels it’s ready for that.
“As this has not been upvoted”… if you guys counted up and down votes separately, you would see that this has been upvoted (and down voted too). I guess reporting just a sum helps to bring sense of unity by eliminating feedback on disagreement, and result in a better multi-people happy-death-spiral, as the unknown-origin evidence propagates in cycles, stripped of all information that allows to prevent cyclic updates.
edit: actually, in interest of full disclosure: I’m Dmytry, I at some point decided that this place is not worth talking to (and changed password and email to gibberish), but then I’m still very drawn to trying to analyze the failure, it’s just very interesting. But I am not really getting into explanations much any more.
Though there’s something I do want to explain.
It is clear that Bayesian network should avoid cyclic updates, or else. You should write a working implementation of Bayesian network that handles an inference graph with potential cycles, that’ll give some idea, as well as make it pretty clear that apparently-Bayesian solutions that miss one or other little thing can produce utter rubbish. Other issue is the pruning when generating the hypotheses, if you don’t prune you’ll be very slow and won’t be any more correct at any given time. And if you do (note that you prune by difficulty, by usefulness, just randomly) you have cherry picked selection of propositions (out of enormous sea of possible propositions), then if you update on them ‘correctly’ using Bayes, there could be a few things on which you’ll be very, very wrong. Then those things will feel as if you outsmarted everyone at evaluating those things, and you may end up letting those few things where the method failed define your whole life. (And people will interpret this very uncharitably as well, because we internalized as ‘good’ the methods that protect from this failure mode)
You know, you didn’t need to assume the choice to only present the sum was explicitly made, and for bad reasons. I don’t understand it and would much rather see up and down separately. But that explanation is pretty insulting—that they intentionally did it to hide dissent and work contrary to their own stated goals. Seriously?
Come on there’s a post here about using synchronized moves to bring in sense of unity on meetings. Also, I did not say that it was deliberately or explicitly made (what ever that means anyway), just noted what it helps to do. It helps achieve that regardless of whenever that is what you explicitly wanted, what you implicitly wanted, or what you didn’t want at all. edit: And I think it is safe to assume that at some level, anyone wants to see rational people agree, and act together in harmony. The brain does tend to pick means rather unscrupulously though, regardless of high level intentions. Rationalists should know that better than anyone else.
The ‘helps to … and...’ construction really doesn’t convey that ‘it was all a fluke’ thought very distinctly, see? And just before you say it was accidental, you say how people mean it.
And… well, look at “Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)”. It’s pretty devastating (much more incisive than any of the AI researchers’ arguments presented recently), and is sitting at +85 karma after a mere 8 hours.
‘Accidental’, ‘deliberate’, the real word humans do not have such binary distinction. You want people to agree rationally, you end up thinking how to do that, and then you get all the way to the shortcuts that you carefully designed to achieve a bad end state, while thinking good thoughts (you end up with a sort of meaning drift—you work to improve rationality, you work harder, rationality drifts and fuzzes out and now you are down to ideas like lets sign and dance synchronously).
Furthermore, this forum software was NOT written by Eliezer. It is Reddit. It was, matter of factly, designed to maximize irrational-ish behaviour (waste of time online) and it is entirely possible that originally it did not separate the ups and downs to bring sense of unity blah blah blah (which turned out to be unnecessary).
edit: also, read the post he made, it aligns with what i’ve been saying here about AI, even down to the tool-agent distinction. That didn’t really have great effect (not speaking from position of some power).