Is this another karma-related topic? Your tags suggest otherwise, but I would like to see some of these dimensions as part of the karma metric, both for myself and for other people. Most of the examples you cite seem to be natural binary dimensions, but not fully orthogonal. Not sure what I should say here, but I’ll link to my longest comment on Less wrong on the topic of enhanced karma. As you are approaching the topic, such an approach would help me recognize “amiable” people and understand what makes them amiable. I doubt that becoming more amiable is one of my goals, but at least I could reflect on why not. Or perhaps most importantly I could look for the dimensions that reflect sincere amiability to filter against the fake amiability of the “charming sociopaths” you mentioned.
It’s hard to change or improve something without measuring it. I think you are describing a fairly complicated concept, but it might be possible to break it down into dimensions that are easier to assess. For example, if some of the assessments are related to specific comments or replies [our primary “actions” within LessWrong], then we could see what we are doing that affects various aspects of our “amiability”.
This demonstration of “Personality Insights” might help illustrate what I’m talking about. If you want to test it, I recommend clicking on the “Body of Text” tab and pasting in some of your writing. Then click on the “Analyze” button to get a display for some of the primary dimensions. If you then click on the “Sunburst visualization” link at the bottom, you’ll see more dimensions and how they are grouped. I think your notion of “amiability” may be within the cluster of “Agreeableness” dimensions.
Another way to think of it is related to the profiles that Facebook and the google have compiled for each of us. My understanding (from oldish reports) is that they are dealing with hundreds of dimensions. I would actually like to see my own profile and the data that created it. I might even disagree with some of the evaluations, but right now those evaluations are being used (and abused) without my knowledge.
Is this another karma-related topic? Your tags suggest otherwise, but I would like to see some of these dimensions as part of the karma metric, both for myself and for other people. Most of the examples you cite seem to be natural binary dimensions, but not fully orthogonal. Not sure what I should say here, but I’ll link to my longest comment on Less wrong on the topic of enhanced karma. As you are approaching the topic, such an approach would help me recognize “amiable” people and understand what makes them amiable. I doubt that becoming more amiable is one of my goals, but at least I could reflect on why not. Or perhaps most importantly I could look for the dimensions that reflect sincere amiability to filter against the fake amiability of the “charming sociopaths” you mentioned.
I hadn’t intended this post to be at all karma-related, but now I’m very curious about how you would connect karma and amiability.
It’s hard to change or improve something without measuring it. I think you are describing a fairly complicated concept, but it might be possible to break it down into dimensions that are easier to assess. For example, if some of the assessments are related to specific comments or replies [our primary “actions” within LessWrong], then we could see what we are doing that affects various aspects of our “amiability”.
This demonstration of “Personality Insights” might help illustrate what I’m talking about. If you want to test it, I recommend clicking on the “Body of Text” tab and pasting in some of your writing. Then click on the “Analyze” button to get a display for some of the primary dimensions. If you then click on the “Sunburst visualization” link at the bottom, you’ll see more dimensions and how they are grouped. I think your notion of “amiability” may be within the cluster of “Agreeableness” dimensions.
Another way to think of it is related to the profiles that Facebook and the google have compiled for each of us. My understanding (from oldish reports) is that they are dealing with hundreds of dimensions. I would actually like to see my own profile and the data that created it. I might even disagree with some of the evaluations, but right now those evaluations are being used (and abused) without my knowledge.