More. But we also need some better filter. To be more precise, I need a better filter. I do care a lot about the lifehacks. I care about some formal math. I don’t care at all about the altruistic stuff.
You pose the interesting question of “is there enough LW content?” and I tend to answer “no, most certainly not” as writing a post gives plenty of utility to plenty of people but this is a public good and those are almost certainly undersupplied. Maybe some kind of reward mechanism based on karma and donations can remedy that.
Edit: A sketch of an idea as an inspiration to people better skilled at designing these things: Posters get money out of a yearly/monthly/weekly fund in proportion to the karma they reap relative to all other posters in the same time frame. The fund itself then is filled by users willing to give some money in return for an option to (temporarily) hold a token title. This system is not perfect by far but should lead to more posts in general. Assuming we don’t accidentally trigger market based norms and discourage people from writing as they start to see it as an extremely low paying job.
If you give volunteers monetary compensation they tend to perform worse than when they do their work for free—except when they get paid quite a sum of money. That’s why you see doctors doing work for free but not for a nominal amount of money—or they do work for full price.
More. But we also need some better filter. To be more precise, I need a better filter. I do care a lot about the lifehacks. I care about some formal math. I don’t care at all about the altruistic stuff.
You pose the interesting question of “is there enough LW content?” and I tend to answer “no, most certainly not” as writing a post gives plenty of utility to plenty of people but this is a public good and those are almost certainly undersupplied. Maybe some kind of reward mechanism based on karma and donations can remedy that.
Edit: A sketch of an idea as an inspiration to people better skilled at designing these things: Posters get money out of a yearly/monthly/weekly fund in proportion to the karma they reap relative to all other posters in the same time frame. The fund itself then is filled by users willing to give some money in return for an option to (temporarily) hold a token title. This system is not perfect by far but should lead to more posts in general. Assuming we don’t accidentally trigger market based norms and discourage people from writing as they start to see it as an extremely low paying job.
You don’t want each LWer to have a monetary incentive for all other LWers to have less karma.
Why should that assumption hold?
If you give volunteers monetary compensation they tend to perform worse than when they do their work for free—except when they get paid quite a sum of money. That’s why you see doctors doing work for free but not for a nominal amount of money—or they do work for full price.
Yes, I know. The interesting question is why you assume that it doesn’t apply in this case.
No good reason, I just did it for the sake of argument.