This suggests to me a different idea on how to improve LessWrong: make an automated “basics of disagreement” test. This involves recognizing a couple of basic concepts like cruxes and common knowledge, and involves looking at some comment threads and correctly diagnosing “what’s going on” in them (e.g. where are they talking past each other) and you have to notice a bunch of useful ways to intervene.
Then if you pass, your username on comments gets a little badge next to it, and your strong vote strength gets moved up to +4 (if you’re not already there).
The idea is to make it clearer who is breaking the rules that they know, versus who is breaking the rules that they don’t know.
This suggests to me a different idea on how to improve LessWrong: make an automated “basics of disagreement” test. This involves recognizing a couple of basic concepts like cruxes and common knowledge, and involves looking at some comment threads and correctly diagnosing “what’s going on” in them (e.g. where are they talking past each other) and you have to notice a bunch of useful ways to intervene.
Then if you pass, your username on comments gets a little badge next to it, and your strong vote strength gets moved up to +4 (if you’re not already there).
The idea is to make it clearer who is breaking the rules that they know, versus who is breaking the rules that they don’t know.
Interestingly, my next planned essay is an exploration of a single basic of disagreement.