Personally, I think that behavior should be rewarded.
Thank you, and I share that view. Why don’t we see everyone doing it? Why, I would be overjoyed if everyone was so firmly trained in Rat101 that comments like these were not special.
But now I am deviating into a should-world + diff.
Though among LW members, people probably don’t need to be encouraged to use basic rationality. If we could just upvote and downvote people’s arguments in real life...
I’m also considering the possibility that MHD was asking why we don’t see everyone using Rationality 101.
Thank you, and I share that view. Why don’t we see everyone doing it? Why, I would be overjoyed if everyone was so firmly trained in Rat101 that comments like these were not special.
But now I am deviating into a should-world + diff.
I’m pretty sure we do see everyone doing it. Randomly selecting a few posts, in The Fox and the Low-Hanging Grapes the vast majority of comments received at least one upvote, the Using degrees of freedom to change the past for fun and profit thread have slightly more than 50% upvoted comments and the Rationally Irrational comments also have more upvoted than not.
It seems to me that most reasonably-novel insights are worth at least an upvote or two at the current value.
EDIT: Just in case this comes off as disparaging LW’s upvote generosity or average comment quality, it’s not.
Though among LW members, people probably don’t need to be encouraged to use basic rationality. If we could just upvote and downvote people’s arguments in real life...
I’m also considering the possibility that MHD was asking why we don’t see everyone using Rationality 101.