This makes sense to me in my first pass of thinking about it, and I agree.
There’s something subtle and extremely hard to pull off (perhaps impossible) in: “in the wishing world, what do we think a shared voting policy should be, such that the aggregate of everyone voting consistently according to that policy leaves all comments in approximately the same order that a single extremely perceptive and high-quality reasoner would rank them?”
As opposed to comments just trending toward infinities.
This works out for the earlier top level comments (that see similar voter turnout), the absolute numbers just scale with popularity of the post. If something is not in its place in your ideal ranking, it’s possible to use the vote to move it that way. Vote weights do a little bit to try improving the quality (or value lock-in) of the ranking.
One issue with the system is the zero equilibrium on controversial things, with the last voters randomly winning irrespective of the actual distribution of opinion. It’s unclear how to get something more informative for such situations, but this should be kept in mind as a use case for any reform.
This makes sense to me in my first pass of thinking about it, and I agree.
There’s something subtle and extremely hard to pull off (perhaps impossible) in: “in the wishing world, what do we think a shared voting policy should be, such that the aggregate of everyone voting consistently according to that policy leaves all comments in approximately the same order that a single extremely perceptive and high-quality reasoner would rank them?”
As opposed to comments just trending toward infinities.
This works out for the earlier top level comments (that see similar voter turnout), the absolute numbers just scale with popularity of the post. If something is not in its place in your ideal ranking, it’s possible to use the vote to move it that way. Vote weights do a little bit to try improving the quality (or value lock-in) of the ranking.
One issue with the system is the zero equilibrium on controversial things, with the last voters randomly winning irrespective of the actual distribution of opinion. It’s unclear how to get something more informative for such situations, but this should be kept in mind as a use case for any reform.