For the examples you give, the improvements you cite to intrinsic motivation + karma would be sufficient to motivate me for questions of the “take an afternoon of your time” type, which is approximately where my blogposts have been landing anyway. Further, several are already of the summarize papers/point to a list of sources type. On the long end of weeks or months, bounties in the hundreds would probably satisfy depending on the level of interest I have, which is the true variable in whether I engage.
It is hard to tell in the current format what kind of depth-of-answer the questioner is looking for, and what time frame would be appropriate for an answer. It is also hard to tell how well answered a question already is, which has a big impact on reading older questions or questions with many answers. Mostly I have been viewing questions at the same rate as blog posts, but it occurs to me that they don’t age in the same way informative or exploratory posts do; the question is unresolved until it is.
Having some way to disentangle the content of this site from when it was posted would be handy.
It’s still worth mentioning, but what sort of guidelines should be included when using the site and making it a better place?
For a few months I started donating a bit more money to LW instead of to EA, as a motivation to donate for reasons that don’t sound very interesting to me, but for reasons that are hard to evaluate and simple enough that I’d like to not see it’s impact on the world. But now, while I might donate that money to EA, the potential consequence is still quite a big win to my happiness and my career.
For the examples you give, the improvements you cite to intrinsic motivation + karma would be sufficient to motivate me for questions of the “take an afternoon of your time” type, which is approximately where my blogposts have been landing anyway. Further, several are already of the summarize papers/point to a list of sources type. On the long end of weeks or months, bounties in the hundreds would probably satisfy depending on the level of interest I have, which is the true variable in whether I engage.
It is hard to tell in the current format what kind of depth-of-answer the questioner is looking for, and what time frame would be appropriate for an answer. It is also hard to tell how well answered a question already is, which has a big impact on reading older questions or questions with many answers. Mostly I have been viewing questions at the same rate as blog posts, but it occurs to me that they don’t age in the same way informative or exploratory posts do; the question is unresolved until it is.
Having some way to disentangle the content of this site from when it was posted would be handy.
It’s still worth mentioning, but what sort of guidelines should be included when using the site and making it a better place?
For a few months I started donating a bit more money to LW instead of to EA, as a motivation to donate for reasons that don’t sound very interesting to me, but for reasons that are hard to evaluate and simple enough that I’d like to not see it’s impact on the world. But now, while I might donate that money to EA, the potential consequence is still quite a big win to my happiness and my career.