I’m so glad that comments with pointed nitpicking of world saving ideas are getting the respect and remuneration they deserves!
That said… I think maybe you’ve never heard of quadratic voting, which is VERY TRENDY lately?
Based on reasoning that I can unpack if you’re not smart enough to steelman my arguments and understand it for yourself, you should consider giving mere OPs the natural log of their upvotes, while giving e^upvotes good hearts for votes on comments.
The deep logic here is based on the insight that the hardest part of writing is figuring out who your audience is, and what they don’t understand, and whether they would welcome what you’re writing and be helped by it.
This is why brutally nitpicking writing by authors from a different social bubble than you is such an important part of a healthy epistemic ecology… if potential authors didn’t have examples of brutal nitpicking here on Lesswrong, they wouldn’t be able to understand and imagine the very high quality of the audience around these parts.
Also, the bad posters wouldn’t be pre-emptively scared away from writing dumb things.
And most importantly, the good posters wouldn’t write such consistently good posts.
We know that GANs are the heart of most important advances in machine learning. Smart people can’t help but notice that comments have that same role here on Lesswrong.
Therefore, today of all days, on the anniversary of this wonderful program, I think it is important (A) to remind people to think very hard, and then (B) to praise people who have the strongest pruning skills and least disinclination to verbosely criticize online acquaintances in public, and then (C) to affirm that the good heart system should be tweaked (again) to make sure that “critics in the comments” get the most money per upvote, since comment upvotes are some of the most causally significant upvotes that can be generated by the discerning, wise, rational, and not-at-all-emotionally-manipulable voters of Lesswrong <3
I’m so glad that comments with pointed nitpicking of world saving ideas are getting the respect and remuneration they deserves!
That said… I think maybe you’ve never heard of quadratic voting, which is VERY TRENDY lately?
Based on reasoning that I can unpack if you’re not smart enough to steelman my arguments and understand it for yourself, you should consider giving mere OPs the natural log of their upvotes, while giving e^upvotes good hearts for votes on comments.
The deep logic here is based on the insight that the hardest part of writing is figuring out who your audience is, and what they don’t understand, and whether they would welcome what you’re writing and be helped by it.
This is why brutally nitpicking writing by authors from a different social bubble than you is such an important part of a healthy epistemic ecology… if potential authors didn’t have examples of brutal nitpicking here on Lesswrong, they wouldn’t be able to understand and imagine the very high quality of the audience around these parts.
Also, the bad posters wouldn’t be pre-emptively scared away from writing dumb things.
And most importantly, the good posters wouldn’t write such consistently good posts.
We know that GANs are the heart of most important advances in machine learning. Smart people can’t help but notice that comments have that same role here on Lesswrong.
Therefore, today of all days, on the anniversary of this wonderful program, I think it is important (A) to remind people to think very hard, and then (B) to praise people who have the strongest pruning skills and least disinclination to verbosely criticize online acquaintances in public, and then (C) to affirm that the good heart system should be tweaked (again) to make sure that “critics in the comments” get the most money per upvote, since comment upvotes are some of the most causally significant upvotes that can be generated by the discerning, wise, rational, and not-at-all-emotionally-manipulable voters of Lesswrong <3
Note that quadratic voting has been used for all of the annual reviews, starting in 2018.
I assumed that that was the joke.