People also complained about the “AI in a box boxes you post”, which was a great post nearly identical in structure to this one. Few people read the open thread; good posts should not default to the open thread. Why is your criteria for top-level posts so arbitrarily difficult? We are not facing a problem of an influx of low quality content and the moderation+promotion system works well.
My criteria for top-level posts is not “so arbitrarily difficult.” Frankly, I’m not completely sure that that the AI boxing you post should have been a top-level post either. However, given that that post did not focus on any specific AI solution but a more general set of issues, whereas this one focuses on CEV, there may be a distinction between them. That said, I agree that as of right now, the moderation/promotion system is working well. But I suspect that that is partially due to people implicitly applying criteria like the ones I listed in their moderation decisions.
Incidentally, I’m curious what evidence you have that the open threads are not as read as top-level posts. In particular, I’m not sure this applies to non-promoted top-level posts. I suspect that it is true, and indeed, if it isn’t then my own logic for wanting criterion 2 becomes substantially weaker. Now that you’ve made our shared premise explicit I have to wonder what evidence we have for the claim.
People also complained about the “AI in a box boxes you post”, which was a great post nearly identical in structure to this one. Few people read the open thread; good posts should not default to the open thread. Why is your criteria for top-level posts so arbitrarily difficult? We are not facing a problem of an influx of low quality content and the moderation+promotion system works well.
My criteria for top-level posts is not “so arbitrarily difficult.” Frankly, I’m not completely sure that that the AI boxing you post should have been a top-level post either. However, given that that post did not focus on any specific AI solution but a more general set of issues, whereas this one focuses on CEV, there may be a distinction between them. That said, I agree that as of right now, the moderation/promotion system is working well. But I suspect that that is partially due to people implicitly applying criteria like the ones I listed in their moderation decisions.
Incidentally, I’m curious what evidence you have that the open threads are not as read as top-level posts. In particular, I’m not sure this applies to non-promoted top-level posts. I suspect that it is true, and indeed, if it isn’t then my own logic for wanting criterion 2 becomes substantially weaker. Now that you’ve made our shared premise explicit I have to wonder what evidence we have for the claim.