I also think we should maybe run a filter on the votes that only takes AlignmentForum users, and check what the AF consensus on alignment-related posts was.
I would definitely be interested in seeing this. I certainly put a lot of my votes in Thoughts on Human Models, since I agree it’s a great post (and also nominated it for the review in the first place).
I know I personally avoided voting on a lot of alignment stuff because I didn’t feel like I could evaluate them well, and wouldn’t be surprised if other people did that as well.
I wonder if this suggests that you should be using a voting system that averages votes rather than summing them, thereby assigning people who didn’t vote on a post the average vote rather than a zero vote.
I would definitely be interested in seeing this. I certainly put a lot of my votes in Thoughts on Human Models, since I agree it’s a great post (and also nominated it for the review in the first place).
I wonder if this suggests that you should be using a voting system that averages votes rather than summing them, thereby assigning people who didn’t vote on a post the average vote rather than a zero vote.