For every non-duplicate comment replying to this one praising me for my right action, I will donate $10 to SIAI, up to a cap of $1010, with the count ending on 1 June 2011. Also accepting private messages.
Edit: The cap was met on 30 May. Donation of $1010 made.
This comment inspired me to make a donation to Village Reach. Your right action just got $350 worth of preventative medical care for kids, plus this praising comment.
I will extol thee, my fellow LessWronger, O SIAI donor, and I will bless thy name until June 1.
Every day I will bless thee; and I will praise thy name until June 1.
Great is Rain, and greatly to be praised; and eir greatness is searchable and indexed by Google.
This way of doing things is pretty cool, because now not only do you get to feel good for taking a right action, others get to feel good for getting you to do it, and you get to feel good for getting others to get you to do it.
Public commitment is a great way to improve one’s chances of right action. And the “praise me” part of the set-up lets you potentially get even more warm fuzzies than the donation would alone! Nice job of community-usage and self-manipulation to get something productive done. Seriously.
I momentarily stopped to think about a way to make this praise-comment clever. When I couldn’t, on the spot, come up with anything clever enough, I considered waiting until I would. But then I realized that that might make me forget to comment entirely! So let me now praise you for your wonderful deed, which provides SIAI money, acts of creativity to us, and great well-being in the form of positive emotions and group bonding to everyone! Huzzah!
I praise you for having the wisdom of using a long enough deadline. When I first read your comment, it felt like you were exploiting me, as if you were forcing me to share my limited praise resources. But because I had enough time, I got over myself, realized that this is not a zero-sum game, that this is not an attack on my status and that what you are doing is clever and good.
I commend anyone who donates to SIAI unless the donor acquired the assets by stealing, defrauding or otherwise imposing undeserved harm on another—and based on his writings here, the latter seems very unlikely in Rain’s case.
I praise this act of taking a snarky comment literally and turning it into something wonderful. If this idea takes hold, we’ll either see less snarkiness or more wonder.
I praise this act of taking a snarky comment literally and turning it into something wonderful. If this idea takes hold, we’ll either see less snarkiness or more wonder.
By way of dissociation with bitter, somewhat self righteous counter-snarkiness I removed my praise comment that was the sibling of the parent and replaced it with praise for Vladimir. Hopefully this will lead to more pragmatic insight.
My own donations to SIAI are currently limited by the peer pressure not to donate, rather than my actual available funds. As such, replying to your comment gives me an excellent way to donate by stealth. Praise for your weird brilliance!
I could probably come up with some contrarian rationalization not to praise you, but I’ll just not do that. Praise to you for making this minute more useful to the world than my last minute.
Usually, donating conditionally would be less right than unconditionally and asking for praise later. Yet in this context, knock-on effects make it righter. Major props.
I praise you for your right action. Not only does your action have recursive beauty, but it also, like a socio-volitional whirlpool, a decision-theoretic attractor, guides me by example.
I certainly hope you mean non-duplicate per-user, since I’m not going to read through every one of the comments to ensure that my response is non-duplicate. In any case, I sing your praise on high.
For every non-duplicate comment replying to this one praising me for my right action, I will donate $10 to SIAI, up to a cap of $1010, with the count ending on 1 June 2011. Also accepting private messages.
Edit: The cap was met on 30 May. Donation of $1010 made.
This comment inspired me to make a donation to Village Reach. Your right action just got $350 worth of preventative medical care for kids, plus this praising comment.
… Why did you not donate it to the SIAI instead?!?
It’s complicated. Just take my word for it that I wanted to but wasn’t able to.
Oh. Ok no problem in that case.
I just made the donation of $1010. Thanks to all those who commented!
I will extol thee, my fellow LessWronger, O SIAI donor, and I will bless thy name until June 1. Every day I will bless thee; and I will praise thy name until June 1. Great is Rain, and greatly to be praised; and eir greatness is searchable and indexed by Google.
Your action is particularly right in not requiring that every user must limit the amount of praise to one comment.
I do a virtual Rain dance to honor this right action.
Further, I compound this by donating an additional $30 myself to SIAI right now.
I’ll pat myself on the back for coming up with this idea, which has promised $340 to SIAI as of me submitting this comment.
This way of doing things is pretty cool, because now not only do you get to feel good for taking a right action, others get to feel good for getting you to do it, and you get to feel good for getting others to get you to do it.
The total is now $740.
l33t pr41z Ph0R R41N. j00 r0X0R!
Public commitment is a great way to improve one’s chances of right action. And the “praise me” part of the set-up lets you potentially get even more warm fuzzies than the donation would alone! Nice job of community-usage and self-manipulation to get something productive done. Seriously.
I momentarily stopped to think about a way to make this praise-comment clever. When I couldn’t, on the spot, come up with anything clever enough, I considered waiting until I would. But then I realized that that might make me forget to comment entirely! So let me now praise you for your wonderful deed, which provides SIAI money, acts of creativity to us, and great well-being in the form of positive emotions and group bonding to everyone! Huzzah!
All my praise are belong to you.
Congratulations on doing a thing closer to the best thing than many other relevant alternatives!
I hereby praise ya. Make it rain for the singularity!
Excellent! You’ve made my day better and done something good at the same time!
ETA: To be clear, the word “Excellent!” is praise.
Kudos for a right action!
For your act of righteousness, this comment praises you.
This is an excellent action! Commendations and praise be to you!
Rationalist!Yoda
I praise you for having the wisdom of using a long enough deadline. When I first read your comment, it felt like you were exploiting me, as if you were forcing me to share my limited praise resources. But because I had enough time, I got over myself, realized that this is not a zero-sum game, that this is not an attack on my status and that what you are doing is clever and good.
Well done, I praise you for your right action.
I commend anyone who donates to SIAI unless the donor acquired the assets by stealing, defrauding or otherwise imposing undeserved harm on another—and based on his writings here, the latter seems very unlikely in Rain’s case.
And unto the ten thousandth generation, they sing Rain’s praises for he saves 80 of them for each donation. Thank you very much for doing this.
I can’t find your source for that number. I’m interested.
Here
Anna Salamon calculates that a dollar donated to SI saves on average 8 human lives.
I praise you for your right action. Also, here is a random string of integers to prove the non-duplicate nature of my comment: 5224818730
How did you generate those integers? Are they really random?!
Here is the link I used.
I praise you for this specific right action, and for the virtuous character and skills that it signals (honestly, based on other available info).
Your right action is most excellent!
I praise this act of taking a snarky comment literally and turning it into something wonderful. If this idea takes hold, we’ll either see less snarkiness or more wonder.
By way of dissociation with bitter, somewhat self righteous counter-snarkiness I removed my praise comment that was the sibling of the parent and replaced it with praise for Vladimir. Hopefully this will lead to more pragmatic insight.
Praised be this commitment of action by Rain.
I praise you for acting less wrong.
Thanks and compliments for your right action.
You’ve my sincerest praise for this right and good action.
Such an action is worthy of the praise it received!
Praise and blessings be upon thy name!
I praise you for acting rightly.
Huzzah!
Praise for right action! Thanks for doing this!
I praise this right action.
I hereby praise you for your right action. My username is arundelo.
Yes, a somewhat munchkinish way of fulfilling the non-duplicate requirement. Thanks for the free $10!
Upvoted and replied. Kudos to you for the right action!
My own donations to SIAI are currently limited by the peer pressure not to donate, rather than my actual available funds. As such, replying to your comment gives me an excellent way to donate by stealth. Praise for your weird brilliance!
Praise for right action. Attempting to do good should have positive EV, let’s encourage that.
*hugs* for donations to reduce x-risk!
You are awesome and your action is praiseworthy!
Props for your righteous action!
clenched fist salutes
Oh Rain, I praise thou so that your status may soar (temporarily) for your right action!
I praise you for your right action.
This is good and right of you. I approve.
I hereby declare your action to be praised by me.
Aaaand, you also get a 2X Praise Bonus! Thanks to Nesov for the suggestion.
Felicidades a Rain por su buena acción.
Our multitude of voices exalting Rain’s donation rebound off the faster-approaching towers of the Singularity!
Praise be unto Rain and the right action he is to undertake!
Praise + action
Wow. That’s really awesome for you to do.
Praise for Rain, and Rain’s right action!
Yet more praises rain on Rain.
I too praise this right action.
Sweet. A free (for me) way to donate money. Thank you very much for providing this opportunity (i.e. I praise you for your right action.)
Cunya praises your right action!
Thanks for your right action! I sincerely praise you.
For your right action, I praise you.
I could probably come up with some contrarian rationalization not to praise you, but I’ll just not do that. Praise to you for making this minute more useful to the world than my last minute.
Usually, donating conditionally would be less right than unconditionally and asking for praise later. Yet in this context, knock-on effects make it righter. Major props.
I praise you for this right action.
I praise you for your right action. Not only does your action have recursive beauty, but it also, like a socio-volitional whirlpool, a decision-theoretic attractor, guides me by example.
Edit: Ah, so that’s what you meant by duplicate.
Dupe
I hereby extend my praise for:
Your right action.
Its contextual awesomeness.
Setting up a utility gradient that basically forces me to reply to your comment, itself a novel experience.
Thanks for doing such a great thing! :D
I praise you for you right action, Rain. I honestly do.
The Knights Who Say Ni salute your noble undertaking, provided that you first build a working cello out of toothpicks.
Praise be to you for your right action! May you be blessed by the gods.
Thank you ^_^ i really appreciate you supporting a path towards a FAI singularity.
I praise your right action.
Congratulation for raising the expected utility of the future!
Good for you. Allowing other people to force you to do what you should be doing anyway is a great way to increase utility!
I certainly hope you mean non-duplicate per-user, since I’m not going to read through every one of the comments to ensure that my response is non-duplicate. In any case, I sing your praise on high.
I praise your right action, and accept the minor karma hit.
Hmm, I wish I knew how to avoid this post polluting the “Recent Comments” list.
Rain accepts PMs.
It seems most people want their praise to be public, in which case avoiding the recent comments list would be counterproductive.
Praise for your right action.
Thank you for your right action.