One way to encourage people to not just vote stuff up because it is already popular would be to occasionally put up a subtle nonsense post, preferably by someone high status like EY or robin, seed it with an already fairly high score (such as 10) and then heavily penalize people’s karma if they vote it up. One might call this a “honeypot for phoney rationalists”
This would require some incentive for people to vote, to compensate for the small probability of being hit with a penalty. Overall this would make the Karma system more complex.
Should we be worried that people will vote stuff up just because it is already popular? There is currently no penalty for voting against the crowd, so wouldn’t people (rightly) want to do this?
(Of course, we assume people are voting based on their personal impressions. It’s clear that votes bases on Bayesian beliefs are not are useful here.)
One way to encourage people to not just vote stuff up because it is already popular would be to occasionally put up a subtle nonsense post, preferably by someone high status like EY or robin, seed it with an already fairly high score (such as 10) and then heavily penalize people’s karma if they vote it up. One might call this a “honeypot for phoney rationalists”
This would require some incentive for people to vote, to compensate for the small probability of being hit with a penalty. Overall this would make the Karma system more complex.
Should we be worried that people will vote stuff up just because it is already popular? There is currently no penalty for voting against the crowd, so wouldn’t people (rightly) want to do this?
(Of course, we assume people are voting based on their personal impressions. It’s clear that votes bases on Bayesian beliefs are not are useful here.)