One big issue is not that you are not respecting the format of LW—add more context, either link to a document directly, or put the text inline. Resolving this would cover half of the most downvoted posts. You can ask people to review your posts for this before submitting.
Another big issue is that you are a prolific writer, but not a good editor. Just edit more, your writing could be like 5x shorter without losing anything meaningful. You have this overly academic style for your scientific writing, it’s not good on the internet, and not even good in scientific papers. A good take here: https://archive.is/29hNC
From “The elements of Style”: “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
Also, you are trying to move too fast, pursuing too many fronts. Why don’t you just focus on one thing for some time, clarify and polish it enough so that people can actually grasp clearly what you mean?
I just awarded all of the prizes, but this answer feels pretty useful. You can also claim $100 if you want it.
Most of this work was done in 2018 or before, and just never shared with the mainstream alignment community. The only reason it looks like I’m trying to move too fast is that I am trying to get credit for the work I have done too fast.
What would you recommend I polish first? My intuition says Ethicophysics I, just because that sounds the least rational and is the most foundational.
I did not read the “Ethicophysics I” paper in details, only skimmed it. It looks to me very similar to “On purposeful systems” https://www.amazon.com/Purposeful-Systems-Interdisciplinary-Analysis-Individual/dp/0202307980 in it’s approach to formalize things like feelings/emotions/ideals. Have you read it? I think it would help your case a lot if you move to terms of system theory like in “On purposeful systems”, rather than pseudo-theological terms.
One big issue is not that you are not respecting the format of LW—add more context, either link to a document directly, or put the text inline. Resolving this would cover half of the most downvoted posts. You can ask people to review your posts for this before submitting.
Another big issue is that you are a prolific writer, but not a good editor. Just edit more, your writing could be like 5x shorter without losing anything meaningful. You have this overly academic style for your scientific writing, it’s not good on the internet, and not even good in scientific papers. A good take here: https://archive.is/29hNC
From “The elements of Style”: “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
Also, you are trying to move too fast, pursuing too many fronts. Why don’t you just focus on one thing for some time, clarify and polish it enough so that people can actually grasp clearly what you mean?
I just awarded all of the prizes, but this answer feels pretty useful. You can also claim $100 if you want it.
Most of this work was done in 2018 or before, and just never shared with the mainstream alignment community. The only reason it looks like I’m trying to move too fast is that I am trying to get credit for the work I have done too fast.
What would you recommend I polish first? My intuition says Ethicophysics I, just because that sounds the least rational and is the most foundational.
No, thanks, I think your awards are fair )
I did not read the “Ethicophysics I” paper in details, only skimmed it. It looks to me very similar to “On purposeful systems” https://www.amazon.com/Purposeful-Systems-Interdisciplinary-Analysis-Individual/dp/0202307980 in it’s approach to formalize things like feelings/emotions/ideals.
Have you read it? I think it would help your case a lot if you move to terms of system theory like in “On purposeful systems”, rather than pseudo-theological terms.
I did that, and received only token engagement with my work. I will add it to my sequence.
https://github.com/epurdy/saferl
Posted an existing draft of such an approach to the tail end of my Sequence.