Your comment is interesting and helpful for me because I have only a small sample of people who don’t follow the “pain is the unit of effort” heuristic to a pathological extent. Perhaps this is explained by my circle of friends being dominated by Asian-Americans who went to the top universities. I definitely didn’t consider what possibly ill effects it might have on others for whom this is not true. So thanks for that information!
However, enough of my brain interpreted your comment as a status move/slapdown that I’d suggest you reconsider doing these reviews, at least in the tone you’re currently doing them. I don’t believe you intended it this way, but your comment comes off as claiming a position of authority and also encourages too much (imo) Goodharting on the LessWrong “top 15 posts” metric. Both of these feel icky to me. I predict you will at minimum annoy a lot of authors if you continue to write these.
I’m going to send you a PM, because I appreciate your feedback and hope to get some further thoughts from you. I’m going to heavily edit my earlier comment, because I appreciate that its tone—quite unintentionally, but also understandably—feels icky. As I said, this is an exploration/experiment, and your experience of it is evidence that I’m not going about it correctly.
No worries! Perhaps it’s worth reminding everyone here that asymmetric justice incentivizes inaction. I hope I didn’t do this just now, I very much appreciate the spirit of your experiment and encourage more people to try to state their beliefs and move fast and break things.
Thank you for being big about it! I plan to use your feedback to refine and improve my “peer preview” concept, not to shelve it. Your forthright but charitable response will be helpful in any success it may achieve.
Your comment is interesting and helpful for me because I have only a small sample of people who don’t follow the “pain is the unit of effort” heuristic to a pathological extent. Perhaps this is explained by my circle of friends being dominated by Asian-Americans who went to the top universities. I definitely didn’t consider what possibly ill effects it might have on others for whom this is not true. So thanks for that information!
However, enough of my brain interpreted your comment as a status move/slapdown that I’d suggest you reconsider doing these reviews, at least in the tone you’re currently doing them. I don’t believe you intended it this way, but your comment comes off as claiming a position of authority and also encourages too much (imo) Goodharting on the LessWrong “top 15 posts” metric. Both of these feel icky to me. I predict you will at minimum annoy a lot of authors if you continue to write these.
I’m going to send you a PM, because I appreciate your feedback and hope to get some further thoughts from you. I’m going to heavily edit my earlier comment, because I appreciate that its tone—quite unintentionally, but also understandably—feels icky. As I said, this is an exploration/experiment, and your experience of it is evidence that I’m not going about it correctly.
No worries! Perhaps it’s worth reminding everyone here that asymmetric justice incentivizes inaction. I hope I didn’t do this just now, I very much appreciate the spirit of your experiment and encourage more people to try to state their beliefs and move fast and break things.
Thank you for being big about it! I plan to use your feedback to refine and improve my “peer preview” concept, not to shelve it. Your forthright but charitable response will be helpful in any success it may achieve.