Ruby comments on Open Thread With Experimental Feature: Reactions

[Ruby]

Might make this a post later, but here a few of my current thoughts (will post as separate comments due to length).

[Ruby]

Clustering of Reacts (differing ontologies)

*Reacts that require high karma to be allowed to use, possibly moderator only

The top level categories are roughly ordered by how interested I am in them for LessWrong

• Reacts that make sense as conversation between two people have a conversation

  • I will reply later

  • you changed my mind

  • not a crux for me /​ this doesn’t update me

  • do you have examples?

  • I think you didn’t read me carefully

  • I have seen this

  • I would bet on this at {1:1, 2:1, 4:1, 10:1} odds

  • what’s your concrete prediction?

  • what’s different between worlds where this is true vs false?

  • taboo your words

  • you didn’t understand me/​this is a strawman*

  • Doesn’t feel relevant to me

• Reacts that make sense as conversation between author and reader

  • I already addressed that (useful for post authors when people didn’t read it)

• Reactions that makes sense from readers/​audience

  • agree (public)

  • disagree (public)

  • roll to disbelieve

  • I defy the data

  • Seems true based on private information

  • You should try to pass the other person’s ITT

• Feedback to the comment/​post author

  • This is 101 content in 301 space*

  • Poorly formatted

  • Doesn’t address prior discussion

  • unhelpfully aggressive*

  • missing LW basics (e.g. Sequences)

  • Politics is the mindkiller*

  • This is a strawman (of something being described)

  • This seems tribal/​political*

• Assessment/​judgment of the content (particularly epistemic)

  • locally invalid

  • premises seem false

  • correct conclusion, bad reasoning

  • false conclusion because false premises, but valid reasoning

• Reacts that are funny /​ culture-y

  • I now have additional questions

  • this was your father’s rock

  • The AI does not love you or hate you, but you are made of atoms it can be used for other things

  • skeptical Eliezer react

  • horrified Eliezer react

• Reacts that express how content affected a reader (these might be important for positive signal)

  • this was helpful/​valuable

  • I feel grateful

  • this made me laugh

  • this makes me sad

• Warm/​fuzzy

  • Support

  • Heartwarmin
    
    One frame might be to give people reacts that correspond to useful things for a facilitator to say.

[Garrett Baker]

All of the conversation between two people reacts you listed seem good for viewers of the conversation to also be able to react with.

[Ruby]

Many of them, yeah

[Ruby]

I think of Reacts as being more like little mini pre-made comments that fill the niche of things that seem too minor to be worth the trouble of typing up as a regular comment. Either it’s something like “I really liked this” where it feels like it’d be cluttered for a lot of people to write this most of the time^[1], or also that writing it as a comment invites one to more discussion or obligates to say more on the topic when all they wanted to do was say “I found this confusing” and not get sucked into a bigger thing.

There’s also a thing in that having particular Reacts means the site is offering you affordance to say that thing, normalizing it. Which seems good.

1. ^

   What actually happens if that if one person writes this, the next person will upvote that comment as a kind of pseudo-react, in a way.