And my impression is that people are only really weirded out by these songs on behalf of other people who are only weirded out by them on behalf of other people.
Coincidentally, I was thinking today about whether people upvote some LW articles because they felt really useful for them, or just because they believe they could be useful for other people. Another instance of a similar problem.
(Specifically, I was considering writing an article explaining some more or less high-school math. Because… well, people have random blind spots, so maybe this could actually help someone. It’s an experiment, and I would get feedback in form of upvotes, right? And then I was like: oh crap, people could actually upvote this article even if it wouldn’t be useful for anyone, just because everyone would be like: well, this is all obvious for me, but someone else will probably benefit from reading this.)
Is there a general solution? I guess in our culture, you could just tell people “please now express how you feel about the issue, ignoring your prediction of how other people will feel about it”. Or perhaps create a poll containing options in the form of “I feel X, but I predict other people will feel Y”.
I’ll leave you wondering whether I upvoted this because I thought this comment was useful or I just someone else would have thought it was interesting. :P
Coincidentally, I was thinking today about whether people upvote some LW articles because they felt really useful for them, or just because they believe they could be useful for other people. Another instance of a similar problem.
(Specifically, I was considering writing an article explaining some more or less high-school math. Because… well, people have random blind spots, so maybe this could actually help someone. It’s an experiment, and I would get feedback in form of upvotes, right? And then I was like: oh crap, people could actually upvote this article even if it wouldn’t be useful for anyone, just because everyone would be like: well, this is all obvious for me, but someone else will probably benefit from reading this.)
Is there a general solution? I guess in our culture, you could just tell people “please now express how you feel about the issue, ignoring your prediction of how other people will feel about it”. Or perhaps create a poll containing options in the form of “I feel X, but I predict other people will feel Y”.
I’ll leave you wondering whether I upvoted this because I thought this comment was useful or I just someone else would have thought it was interesting. :P