I appreciated the work and ideas you shared here. While I understand the kinda natural flow of I designed this cool product > this allowed me to form a clear concept of a potentially useful technique, I think writing
1. an announcement post for the website and why you think it could be a game changer in collective/democratic decision making and similar fields (with a much more succinct coverage of the object level stuff on SB 1047, given that this is LW; and maybe a bit more yet on the good stuff you anticipate from this kind of product, e.g. in terms of tactical benefits for AI safety); and, separately, 2. a short post going ’here’s a neat trick I formulated while working on [link to #1]. I think it could help people get much more out of their discussions’
would have made it easier for your audience to respond better.
I think you did a pretty good job of conveying why you’re enthusiastic both about your project and about your mapping technique, but I suspect a) the object-level-induced noisiness of the part where you introduce the website might drown out the core value of it, while b) the simplicity of the mapping idea may suffer from the curse whereby people think simple ideas were already evident to them just because they make intuitive sense, which might stop them from appreciating the implications/usefulness of the concept. It also seems plausible—this is speculative, obvs—that the LW readership has a distribution that skews towards people who are pretty good at holding a bunch of objects in memory and retrieving them effortlessly, such that maybe they’re less excited about this tool than gen pop might lead you to anticipate (I know these last points aren’t directly the type of feedback you requested).
I appreciated the work and ideas you shared here. While I understand the kinda natural flow of I designed this cool product > this allowed me to form a clear concept of a potentially useful technique, I think writing
1. an announcement post for the website and why you think it could be a game changer in collective/democratic decision making and similar fields (with a much more succinct coverage of the object level stuff on SB 1047, given that this is LW; and maybe a bit more yet on the good stuff you anticipate from this kind of product, e.g. in terms of tactical benefits for AI safety); and, separately,
2. a short post going ’here’s a neat trick I formulated while working on [link to #1]. I think it could help people get much more out of their discussions’
would have made it easier for your audience to respond better.
I think you did a pretty good job of conveying why you’re enthusiastic both about your project and about your mapping technique, but I suspect
a) the object-level-induced noisiness of the part where you introduce the website might drown out the core value of it, while
b) the simplicity of the mapping idea may suffer from the curse whereby people think simple ideas were already evident to them just because they make intuitive sense, which might stop them from appreciating the implications/usefulness of the concept. It also seems plausible—this is speculative, obvs—that the LW readership has a distribution that skews towards people who are pretty good at holding a bunch of objects in memory and retrieving them effortlessly, such that maybe they’re less excited about this tool than gen pop might lead you to anticipate (I know these last points aren’t directly the type of feedback you requested).
Thanks for this post!