I’m curating this post as well as the corresponding Oops post.
Independently, this post does lot of good things I’d love to see more of on LessWrong – it looks at a complex problem, formulates a model of how to think about it, and then does some empiricism to see how the model bears out. The subsequent discussion of the post was great for fleshing out and correcting bits of the model.
I’d have curated this post regardless, listing some potential areas of improvement. But Sarah’s followup Oops post addressed almost all the concerns I had about it. The overall dynamic here was exactly what I’d like to see more of on LW:
Enough confidence to go form a model specific enough to be useful (and potentially wrong)
Discussion of that model, finding it’s weak points
Subsequent updating
The only thing I’d ideally like to see with things like this is more retroactive updating of the original post, so that people who find it afterwards get to see the full updated version. This is partly an issue of how LessWrong currently interfaces with common human psychologies, and we may try to update the site in the future so that going back to edit a post is more hedonic.
I’m curating this post as well as the corresponding Oops post.
Independently, this post does lot of good things I’d love to see more of on LessWrong – it looks at a complex problem, formulates a model of how to think about it, and then does some empiricism to see how the model bears out. The subsequent discussion of the post was great for fleshing out and correcting bits of the model.
I’d have curated this post regardless, listing some potential areas of improvement. But Sarah’s followup Oops post addressed almost all the concerns I had about it. The overall dynamic here was exactly what I’d like to see more of on LW:
Enough confidence to go form a model specific enough to be useful (and potentially wrong)
Discussion of that model, finding it’s weak points
Subsequent updating
The only thing I’d ideally like to see with things like this is more retroactive updating of the original post, so that people who find it afterwards get to see the full updated version. This is partly an issue of how LessWrong currently interfaces with common human psychologies, and we may try to update the site in the future so that going back to edit a post is more hedonic.