So that I may get a better overview of this account I have undertaken one task and plan to undertake another.
This is the task I plan to complete in the near future: In the near future I will be reviewing what I have replied to and deciding whether to bookmark that link and the parent link for further consideration or to disregard them.
This is the task already completed: Looking back over my post history, these are the only one’s for which I currently expect that looking back upon them in the future will be a worthwhile exercise
etc
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Sorry, I had the impression that my posts were more helpful than unhelpful because my karma balance is above zero.
I’m not confident I’m interpreting karma right however since I rarely see upvoted posts but see many downvoted posts.
There is also evidence suggesting I am misinterpreting karma and that it is around zero:
don’t know exactly who you’re supposed to persuade, but your track record so far on LessWrong shows that you barely manage to break even with your karma, and that you lack the level of self-awareness of a socially well-adapted person. Whoever you successfully persuade would have to be even more oblivious than you, which is saying something.
Edit: also funny hearing this from you Lumifer. You’re a very prolific poster and most of your content isn’t probably the kind of information others are looking for. But extension of your logic, why don’t you boo people who speak different languages, or people selling goods you don’t want to buy yourself?
I had the impression that my posts were more helpful than unhelpful because my karma balance is above zero.
By removing the posts which individually have zero or negative karma you could have made the list half as long (and therefore more useful, per unit of time). I’d even say that post karma less than 3 is mere noise.
I reckon if that’s your opinion as a blanket policy just update your account preferences to not show posts with less than 3 karma. It defaults to not showing less than 2 in any case.
So that I may get a better overview of this account I have undertaken one task and plan to undertake another.
This is the task I plan to complete in the near future: In the near future I will be reviewing what I have replied to and deciding whether to bookmark that link and the parent link for further consideration or to disregard them.
This is the task already completed: Looking back over my post history, these are the only one’s for which I currently expect that looking back upon them in the future will be a worthwhile exercise
etc
Posts after this post was published are not included
Discussion board posts
Synthetic biology for good
Deworming a movement
Rationality (psychology, computer sci and behavioural economics)
daily checklist
internalised discounting
meta cognitive checklist
Change, help and understanding
Reducing dimensions of complexity
high performance psychology
What does correlation mean?
triaging problems with plausible psychological and physical solution spaces
Perhaps there should be trigger warning warnings
Uncertainty is okay
Critical thinking emergency department
Hunt down false memories
What does it mean when mental health conditions shift to one another?
time and expertise
towards evidence based meta-cognition and conscious thought
Extinction addiction
Public health*
Lack of community interest in extremely high payoff risky projects, AI excepted
GiveWell’s irreverence for the controversial topics in developmental economic
Is there any evidence GiveWell’s recommended charities make anyone feel better any more effectively than alternatives?
Could preoccupation with neglectedness is an easy way to keep the charity evaluation space free of its own analytical competitors, and who’s keeping track of open problems in ea?
Precision medicine
Human genomics has been a let down so far
Some people may be more depressed because they aren’t traumatised enough
health startups go with a whimper not a bang, if they take off at all
Regulators hold back precision medicine
Political economy
young people can become politicians too
Are market economies conjured evolutions that can’t bridge the Lucas critique?
recent Thiel quotes
individuals might be able to bet beliefs and vote values but is there enough homogeniety in what beliefs and values mean to set up a multiagent system around it?
radio opinions
Openheimmer and his documentary on paramilitaries, similar things and the people behind them
Motivation
competition and ordinariness
yo elliot
Affective truths in motivation
Procrastination and fear of success
Unexpected behaviour
What’s MIRI hiding?
Structured sexism
Not only disinterested in playing paranoid debating online, LW’s dislike the idea
Nobody seems interested in making a planning tool for lay people based to construct game theoretic scenarios
An effective altruism related post in an easy-points thread with minimal texts getting downvotes
LW’ers don’t seem to like poetry
LW’ers don’t like don’t like tangents or counterforenscs
Dude, you ain’t Eliezer or Yvain, it’s a bit too early for you to start constructing Greatest Hits lists...
To be fair, if it helps someone find useful information, so much the better. If not, who does it harm?
It’s noise and so harms everyone who is actually looking for information or whose time has value.
Imagine if I started to post random extracts from Wikipedia onto LW. You argument would apply to them as well, would it not?
Sorry, I had the impression that my posts were more helpful than unhelpful because my karma balance is above zero.
I’m not confident I’m interpreting karma right however since I rarely see upvoted posts but see many downvoted posts.
There is also evidence suggesting I am misinterpreting karma and that it is around zero:
Edit: also funny hearing this from you Lumifer. You’re a very prolific poster and most of your content isn’t probably the kind of information others are looking for. But extension of your logic, why don’t you boo people who speak different languages, or people selling goods you don’t want to buy yourself?
I would boo people who came to LW and started having long public conversations in, say, German.
Besides, I think you’re confusing “I have a right to do X” and “doing X is a good idea”.
By removing the posts which individually have zero or negative karma you could have made the list half as long (and therefore more useful, per unit of time). I’d even say that post karma less than 3 is mere noise.
I reckon if that’s your opinion as a blanket policy just update your account preferences to not show posts with less than 3 karma. It defaults to not showing less than 2 in any case.
I can see the usefulness for you to have that list.
I don’t see the usefulness for anyone else to have it.
I’m leaving LessWrong in a few days and want to save myself time if I wonder what if any of my posts are worth revisiting once I’ve forgotten
In that case you might have put these on you user page.
I tried to but it (edit: the Wiki) says I don’t have one and don’t have permission to create one.