I found myself pretty motivated to reach the leaderboard, but once I reached the leaderboard, I was fine with letting myself slide off it so that I wouldn’t be distracted by it.
This post—General Thoughts on Less Wrong—had been in my drafts, but I forgot to hit publish (since the situation had changed, I had to spend a bit of time rewriting it).
Overall, Goodhart’s were harder to mine than I thought, but I’ve also been very busy with work, so didn’t really have time to create any effort posts.
I think maybe I didn’t take into account that posts would get less attention both due to more content, but also due to me posting content in a shorter window.
I found myself pretty motivated to reach the leaderboard, but once I reached the leaderboard, I was fine with letting myself slide off it so that I wouldn’t be distracted by it.
This post—General Thoughts on Less Wrong—had been in my drafts, but I forgot to hit publish (since the situation had changed, I had to spend a bit of time rewriting it).
Overall, Goodhart’s were harder to mine than I thought, but I’ve also been very busy with work, so didn’t really have time to create any effort posts.
I think they were harder because people thought more seriously about their votes knowing that they are essentially giving the person money.
For what it’s worth, I upvoted and strong-upvoted more than usual.
I think maybe I didn’t take into account that posts would get less attention both due to more content, but also due to me posting content in a shorter window.
Same here.
Same here as well