Worth noting that we’ve massively overshot the “once per year” mark, with regards to frontpaging a lot of covid content. (I think this was plausibly bad, but not obviously so)
I like the general principles here, though still not sure about practicalities. I do very much like the “individual action is clearly useful” idea.
The “individual action is clearly useful” heuristic does two jobs. It disqualifies both non-actionable information and political campaigns.
Worth noting that we’ve massively overshot the “once per year” mark, with regards to frontpaging a lot of covid content. (I think this was plausibly bad, but not obviously so)
Too far in either direction would be a mistake. “No news” implies “never post urgent actionable information”. “Allow news” runs into Lindy. It is a question of calibration. There is a window of reasonable calibrations. I think LW’s decisions fall into that window.
Worth noting that we’ve massively overshot the “once per year” mark, with regards to frontpaging a lot of covid content. (I think this was plausibly bad, but not obviously so)
I like the general principles here, though still not sure about practicalities. I do very much like the “individual action is clearly useful” idea.
The “individual action is clearly useful” heuristic does two jobs. It disqualifies both non-actionable information and political campaigns.
Too far in either direction would be a mistake. “No news” implies “never post urgent actionable information”. “Allow news” runs into Lindy. It is a question of calibration. There is a window of reasonable calibrations. I think LW’s decisions fall into that window.
Sure, just noting that you just said “once a year”, and we did it like 50 times last year or something.
Duly noted. I did write “once a year”. I feel “once per week” is fine too.
Those… feel sufficiently different that I’m not sure what the point of even having a restriction would be.
I feel “once per day” (on average, over time) would be too permissive.
I have modified my original comment to remove the “once per year” restriction.