“Pulling strings” by exaggerating the importance of the stakes, by forcing some members to participate in a game where there is nothing to win personnally and a lot to lose (maybe not this year, but I remember previous year’s organisers suggesting to ban the culprit from some rationalist circles) and having all readership witness the totally artificially created drama.
But to me it just feels like an interesting yearly event, with some real thought put into it. I certainly appreciate it.
To me too, but my ‘interesting’ would be something like “I’m glad it exists even if it’s flawed”. The most important problem for me is that in its current shape it does not allow to draw useful conclusions from the outcome (thanks https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EW8yZYcu3Kff2qShS/?commentId=C97ngHSu6iHmdCjPc for clarifying that point for me)
“Pulling strings” by exaggerating the importance of the stakes, by forcing some members to participate in a game where there is nothing to win personnally and a lot to lose (maybe not this year, but I remember previous year’s organisers suggesting to ban the culprit from some rationalist circles) and having all readership witness the totally artificially created drama.
To me too, but my ‘interesting’ would be something like “I’m glad it exists even if it’s flawed”. The most important problem for me is that in its current shape it does not allow to draw useful conclusions from the outcome (thanks https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EW8yZYcu3Kff2qShS/?commentId=C97ngHSu6iHmdCjPc for clarifying that point for me)