I don’t think any of those features strongly disincentivize me from participating on LW/AF; it’s more the lack of people close to my own viewpoint that disincentivizes me from participating.
I see. Hopefully the LW/AF team is following this thread and thinking about what to do, but in the meantime I encourage you to participate anyway, as it seems good to get ideas from your viewpoint “out there” even if no one is currently engaging with them in a way that you find useful.
as well as the focus on expected utility maximization with simple utility functions
I don’t think anyone talks about simple utility functions? Maybe you mean explicit utility functions?
A priori I assign somewhat high probability that I will not find useful a critical comment on my work from anyone holding that perspective, but I’ll feel obligated to reply anyway.
If this feature request of mine were implemented, you’d be able to respond to such comments with a couple of clicks. In the meantime it seems best to just not feel obligated to reply.
I encourage you to participate anyway, as it seems good to get ideas from your viewpoint “out there” even if no one is currently engaging with them in a way that you find useful.
Yeah, that’s the plan.
I don’t think anyone talks about simple utility functions? Maybe you mean explicit utility functions?
Yes, sorry. I said that because they feel very similar to me: any utility function that can be explicitly specified must be reasonably simple. But I agree “explicit” is more accurate.
In the meantime it seems best to just not feel obligated to reply.
That seems right, but also hard to do in practice (for me).
I see. Hopefully the LW/AF team is following this thread and thinking about what to do, but in the meantime I encourage you to participate anyway, as it seems good to get ideas from your viewpoint “out there” even if no one is currently engaging with them in a way that you find useful.
I don’t think anyone talks about simple utility functions? Maybe you mean explicit utility functions?
If this feature request of mine were implemented, you’d be able to respond to such comments with a couple of clicks. In the meantime it seems best to just not feel obligated to reply.
Yeah, that’s the plan.
Yes, sorry. I said that because they feel very similar to me: any utility function that can be explicitly specified must be reasonably simple. But I agree “explicit” is more accurate.
That seems right, but also hard to do in practice (for me).