I had never thought about approaching this topic from the abstract, but I’m judging from the karma that this is actually what people want, rather than existing projects.
I’m surprised! I thought people were overall disinterested about this topic, but it seems more like the problem itself hadn’t been stated to start with.
Speaking only for myself, I can agree with the abstract approach (therefore: upvote), but I am not familiar with any of the existing projects mentioned in the article (therefore: no vote; because I have no idea how useful the projects actually are, and thus how useful is the list of them).
Informative feedback! Though, I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear, I’m not talking about this list -the post I linked is more like inner documentation for people working in this space and I though the OP and similarly engaged people could benefit from knowing about it, I don’t think it’s “underrated” in any way (I’m still learning something out of your comment, though, so thanks!)
What I meant was that I noticed that posts that present the projects in detail (e.g. Announcing the Double Crux Bot) tend to generate less interest than this one, and it’s a meaningful update for me -I think I didn’t even realize a post like this was “missing”.
Saying the (hopefully) obvious, just to avoid potential misunderstanding: There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing something for a smaller group of people (“people working in this space”), but naturally such articles get less karma, because the number of people interested in the topic is smaller.
Karma is not a precise tool to measure the quality of content. If there were more than a handful of votes, the direction (positive or negative) usually means something, but the magnitude is more about how many people felt that the article was written for them (therefore highest karma goes to well written topics aimed at the general audience).
My suggestion is to mostly ignore these things. Positive karma is good, but bigger karma is not necessarily better.
My intuition is to get less excited by single projects (a Double Crux bot) until someone has brought them all together & created momentum behind some kind of “big” agglomeration of people + resources in the “neutrality tools” space.
I didn’t know about all the existing projects and I appreciate the resource! Concrete >> vague in my book, I just didn’t actually know much about concrete examples.
Related: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vcuBJgfSCvyPmqG7a/list-of-collective-intelligence-projects
I had never thought about approaching this topic from the abstract, but I’m judging from the karma that this is actually what people want, rather than existing projects.
I’m surprised! I thought people were overall disinterested about this topic, but it seems more like the problem itself hadn’t been stated to start with.
Speaking only for myself, I can agree with the abstract approach (therefore: upvote), but I am not familiar with any of the existing projects mentioned in the article (therefore: no vote; because I have no idea how useful the projects actually are, and thus how useful is the list of them).
Informative feedback! Though, I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear, I’m not talking about this list -the post I linked is more like inner documentation for people working in this space and I though the OP and similarly engaged people could benefit from knowing about it, I don’t think it’s “underrated” in any way (I’m still learning something out of your comment, though, so thanks!)
What I meant was that I noticed that posts that present the projects in detail (e.g. Announcing the Double Crux Bot) tend to generate less interest than this one, and it’s a meaningful update for me -I think I didn’t even realize a post like this was “missing”.
Saying the (hopefully) obvious, just to avoid potential misunderstanding: There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing something for a smaller group of people (“people working in this space”), but naturally such articles get less karma, because the number of people interested in the topic is smaller.
Karma is not a precise tool to measure the quality of content. If there were more than a handful of votes, the direction (positive or negative) usually means something, but the magnitude is more about how many people felt that the article was written for them (therefore highest karma goes to well written topics aimed at the general audience).
My suggestion is to mostly ignore these things. Positive karma is good, but bigger karma is not necessarily better.
My intuition is to get less excited by single projects (a Double Crux bot) until someone has brought them all together & created momentum behind some kind of “big” agglomeration of people + resources in the “neutrality tools” space.
I didn’t know about all the existing projects and I appreciate the resource! Concrete >> vague in my book, I just didn’t actually know much about concrete examples.