I like your attitude. I have some thoughts about two of your mini-posts:
1: Indirectness and ineligibility are both defences. This problem will get way worse as governments and the autism-cluster of people increase the legibility of society in order to track, measure and ‘optimize’ more. Boldness and honesty is punished, because one is increasingly (in modern times) guilty by default, so discourse becomes increasingly subtle and murky. Even thought the preference for open information is the norm on LW, I consider it perverse. Indirectness is basically clothing. It’s also taste (which is why we say ‘I need to go to the bathroom’ rather than ‘I need to take a shit’). Information hiding is common even in engineering, and the desire to hide ones ‘private variables’ from outsiders is socially, aesthetically and strategically valid.
9: No, ‘optimization’ for appearance is mostly evil (the exception is good-natured deception, i.e. art). Good titles do not correlate with good posts strongly enough. The incentive towards clickbait is not a healthy one and I do not want to participate in it. If the algorithm sorts by quality of the title, then it does not sort by quality of the associated post (popularity is also not a good metric, though the populace will disagree). I also recognize this ‘one has to prove themselves to the audience’ stance as herd behaviour (e.g. it’s common on Reddit), and the herd (the statistical average) is not a good judge of that which is uncommon (which good, original takes are)
I like your attitude. I have some thoughts about two of your mini-posts:
1: Indirectness and ineligibility are both defences. This problem will get way worse as governments and the autism-cluster of people increase the legibility of society in order to track, measure and ‘optimize’ more. Boldness and honesty is punished, because one is increasingly (in modern times) guilty by default, so discourse becomes increasingly subtle and murky. Even thought the preference for open information is the norm on LW, I consider it perverse. Indirectness is basically clothing. It’s also taste (which is why we say ‘I need to go to the bathroom’ rather than ‘I need to take a shit’). Information hiding is common even in engineering, and the desire to hide ones ‘private variables’ from outsiders is socially, aesthetically and strategically valid.
9: No, ‘optimization’ for appearance is mostly evil (the exception is good-natured deception, i.e. art). Good titles do not correlate with good posts strongly enough. The incentive towards clickbait is not a healthy one and I do not want to participate in it. If the algorithm sorts by quality of the title, then it does not sort by quality of the associated post (popularity is also not a good metric, though the populace will disagree). I also recognize this ‘one has to prove themselves to the audience’ stance as herd behaviour (e.g. it’s common on Reddit), and the herd (the statistical average) is not a good judge of that which is uncommon (which good, original takes are)