This entire exchange reinforces my worry that Karma will get taken too seriously and become a rather large Goodheart’s Law problem. We can’t kill Karma, we need it or the site can’t exist, but perhaps we should encourage not taking it too seriously slash trying to lessen its importance.
Yeah, I was similarly worried. I would be open to testing to see what happens when we make karma invisible, or at least trivially inconvenient to access, but still have it function the same way.
I.e. we could have a week or two in which I make that UI change, and then we check in and see how the experiment went.
This entire exchange reinforces my worry that Karma will get taken too seriously and become a rather large Goodheart’s Law problem. We can’t kill Karma, we need it or the site can’t exist, but perhaps we should encourage not taking it too seriously slash trying to lessen its importance.
Yeah, I was similarly worried. I would be open to testing to see what happens when we make karma invisible, or at least trivially inconvenient to access, but still have it function the same way.
I.e. we could have a week or two in which I make that UI change, and then we check in and see how the experiment went.