Longer answer: normally something like this would sit in my notebook for a while, only informing my own thinking. It would get written up as a post mainly if it were adjacent to something which came up in conversation (either on LW or in person). I would have the idea in my head from the conversation, already be thinking about how best to explain it, chew on it overnight, and then if I’m itching to produce something in the morning I’d bang out the post in about 3-4 hours.
Alternative paths: I might need this idea as background for something else I’m writing up, or I might just be in a post-writing mood and not have anything more ready-to-go. In either of those cases, I’d be starting more from scratch, and it would take about a full day.
Cool, I’ll add $500 to the distillation bounty then, to be paid out to anyone you think did a fine job of distilling the thing :) (Note: this should not be read as my monetary valuation for a day of John work!)
(Also, a cooler pay-out would be basis points, or less, of Wentworth impact equity)
to be paid out to anyone you think did a fine job of distilling the thing
Needing to judge submissions is the main reason I didn’t offer a bounty myself. Read the distillation, and see if you yourself understand it. If “Coherence of Distributed Decisions With Different Inputs Implies Conditioning” makes sense as a description of the idea, then you’ve probably understood it.
If you don’t understand it after reading an attempted distillation, then it wasn’t distilled well enough.
An update on this: sadly I underestimated how busy I would be after posting this bounty. I spent 2h reading this and Thomas post the other day, but didn’t not manage to get into the headspace of evaluating the bounty (i.e. making my own interpretation of John’s post, and then deciding whether Thomas’ distillation captured that). So I will not be evaluating this. (Still happy to pay if someone else I trust claim Thomas’ distillation was sufficient.) My apologies to John and Thomas about that.
Short answer: about one full day.
Longer answer: normally something like this would sit in my notebook for a while, only informing my own thinking. It would get written up as a post mainly if it were adjacent to something which came up in conversation (either on LW or in person). I would have the idea in my head from the conversation, already be thinking about how best to explain it, chew on it overnight, and then if I’m itching to produce something in the morning I’d bang out the post in about 3-4 hours.
Alternative paths: I might need this idea as background for something else I’m writing up, or I might just be in a post-writing mood and not have anything more ready-to-go. In either of those cases, I’d be starting more from scratch, and it would take about a full day.
Cool, I’ll add $500 to the distillation bounty then, to be paid out to anyone you think did a fine job of distilling the thing :) (Note: this should not be read as my monetary valuation for a day of John work!)
(Also, a cooler pay-out would be basis points, or less, of Wentworth impact equity)
Needing to judge submissions is the main reason I didn’t offer a bounty myself. Read the distillation, and see if you yourself understand it. If “Coherence of Distributed Decisions With Different Inputs Implies Conditioning” makes sense as a description of the idea, then you’ve probably understood it.
If you don’t understand it after reading an attempted distillation, then it wasn’t distilled well enough.
An update on this: sadly I underestimated how busy I would be after posting this bounty. I spent 2h reading this and Thomas post the other day, but didn’t not manage to get into the headspace of evaluating the bounty (i.e. making my own interpretation of John’s post, and then deciding whether Thomas’ distillation captured that). So I will not be evaluating this. (Still happy to pay if someone else I trust claim Thomas’ distillation was sufficient.) My apologies to John and Thomas about that.
I will attempt to fill this bounty. Does the fact that I’m on a grant preclude me from claiming it?
Sorry for late reply: no, it does not.