I’ve been thinking a lot about this comment, and wanted to think more, but it seems useful to have something up as voting starts, so....
I think there’s A Thing JW both agree is harmful (around assigning people moral responsibility when they’re responding to incentives), and that I was trying to fight against. One thing I took from this comment is there’s a good chance I had only a partial victory against Harmful Thing, and tried to pull down the master’s house with the master’s tools. I’d be very interested in exploring that further. (I also think it’s possible JW is doing the same thing… it’s a hard trap to escape)
I don’t think giving up the question “Who should we blame?” entirely is a good idea. Possibly the benefits of the norm would outweigh the costs for LessWrong in particular, but I don’t believe such a norm would be a pareto improvement.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this comment, and wanted to think more, but it seems useful to have something up as voting starts, so....
I think there’s A Thing JW both agree is harmful (around assigning people moral responsibility when they’re responding to incentives), and that I was trying to fight against. One thing I took from this comment is there’s a good chance I had only a partial victory against Harmful Thing, and tried to pull down the master’s house with the master’s tools. I’d be very interested in exploring that further. (I also think it’s possible JW is doing the same thing… it’s a hard trap to escape)
I don’t think giving up the question “Who should we blame?” entirely is a good idea. Possibly the benefits of the norm would outweigh the costs for LessWrong in particular, but I don’t believe such a norm would be a pareto improvement.