Hector Perez Arenas

• Hector Perez ArenasOct 19, 2024, 10:53 PM

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  in reply to: Nathan Helm-Burger’s comment on: Tack­ling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism

  Users can register now with email/​password.

• Hector Perez ArenasOct 6, 2024, 11:24 AM

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  on: My hopes for YouCongress.com

  Being able to vote for ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ the quality of a Digital Twin response. Enough dislikes might trigger a model update and regeneration of the response.

  @Nathan Helm-Burger As a first step, moderators can now regenerate AI responses. I have also added you as a moderator, so feel free to use this feature.

  Once we have more users (and have more time/​resources to do it properly), we may introduce a rating system as you suggest. For now, any user can report a comment, and a moderator can regenerate it if deemed reasonable. Is it sensible?

  Thanks!

  

• Hector Perez ArenasSep 22, 2024, 8:53 AM

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  on: My hopes for YouCongress.com

  Thank you for sharing your thoughtful ideas and vision for YouCongress, Nathan!

  Regarding auto-updates of current legislation, I’ve been considering building something akin to subreddits (let’s call them “halls” here) on top of our current topics. Some would be automated by us (e.g. AI polls, climate polls, bills in US Congress), while others would be managed by users. The latter would allow the owner(s) of the hall to add new or existing polls manually or via the API. For example, someone could create a hall about their local region or topic of interest. This user-driven approach could offer a wider coverage.

  The downside here is whether this may lead to duplicated polls.

  What are your thoughts on this?

• Hector Perez ArenasAug 3, 2024, 8:31 AM

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  in reply to: mako yass’s comment on: Tack­ling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism

  Does it? Sorry about that. The minimum set of permissions of twitter login seems to be “Read”. I guess we’ll need to give more priority to sign up with email and password.

  

• Hector Perez ArenasAug 3, 2024, 8:15 AM

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  in reply to: mako yass’s comment on: Tack­ling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism

  Good catch Mako! There was an error in the priority list diagram. Yet, as I understand a priority list, it should choose the first active vote – including abstention. So if the first one in the priority list doesn’t vote but the second votes abstention, the voter would abstain. Does it make sense? I’ve updated the diagram. Thanks for pointing out the error!

• Hector Perez ArenasMay 17, 2024, 9:22 PM

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  in reply to: Nathan Helm-Burger’s comment on: Tack­ling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism

  Done! The website and LessWrong post now use “public opinion poll” instead of “voting”. Thanks again for the suggestion, @Nathan Helm-Burger!

• Hector Perez ArenasMay 16, 2024, 5:01 AM

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  in reply to: Nathan Helm-Burger’s comment on: Tack­ling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Co­or­di­na­tion Mechanism

  Thanks for the feedback Nathan! We’ll definitely consider framing it as public opinion polls—you’re right that it could be more impactful and less confusing.

  Regarding Twitter/​X, we plan to add normal user/​email login. We initially used Twitter login to simplify things and allow public figures to manage their content. But we’ll definitely expand login options.

  And allowing users to create digital twins from LessWrong posts and uploaded documents is a fantastic idea! We’ll definitely explore that, thanks for the suggestion!

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