while the incentives to agree, essentially nonexistent
To me, an obvious incentive is to reach accurate consensus about the problem so that (if real) it can be solved and so upvotes can better align with quality.
I’m willing to cite examples via private message, if you like.
Sure, please do. I think if the problem is real then eventually we’ll probably have to discuss such examples in public but we can certainly start in private if you prefer.
A question first, if I may: do you, yourself, think that examples of this sort of thing exist on Less Wrong? Or, do you think there are no such examples (or perhaps that they are very rare, at best)?
No salient examples come readily to mind, but I think there could be any number of explanations for that aside from such examples being very rare or nonexistent.
ETA: I have not yet received any examples via PM, as of Aug 6.
To me, an obvious incentive is to reach accurate consensus about the problem so that (if real) it can be solved and so upvotes can better align with quality.
Sure, please do. I think if the problem is real then eventually we’ll probably have to discuss such examples in public but we can certainly start in private if you prefer.
No salient examples come readily to mind, but I think there could be any number of explanations for that aside from such examples being very rare or nonexistent.
ETA: I have not yet received any examples via PM, as of Aug 6.