Memes do actual epistemic work (e.g. this post, I claim) and on the margin I‘d prefer more memes (in absolute, not proportional, terms). But some cultures only incentivise memes, which would suck for this community bc much of our work is by necessity unfunny.
Fwiw I think our community rewards unfunny stuff, so I’m not too worried. For example, the top LW post is Alex Turner’s which has zero jokes.
Yeah, incentive gradients point towards meming already, not towards Cultivating the Art of Human Rationality.
I really feel like we don’t have that much meme content on LW.
Memes do actual epistemic work (e.g. this post, I claim) and on the margin I‘d prefer more memes (in absolute, not proportional, terms). But some cultures only incentivise memes, which would suck for this community bc much of our work is by necessity unfunny.
Fwiw I think our community rewards unfunny stuff, so I’m not too worried. For example, the top LW post is Alex Turner’s which has zero jokes.