I’m not particularly worried about my voting being biassed. In fact, seeing the dynamics of ‘karma’ at play, and feeling the impact of the social forces so explicitly is a useful experience.
Nevertheless, the ‘social game’ is always a distraction that takes up valuable resources. I expect I’ll turn on your script fairly often, just so I can turn off the noise. I find it emotionally draining to go ahead and write posts that I know will be dissaproved of, yet still consider worth saying. All over an utterly insignficant and easily manipulated number on a server somewhere. Yet, I suppose that is just more visceral experience of the costs of rationality.
If only you could write one of those for real life. It’d make things so much less tiresome.
Thankyou Marcello!
I’m not particularly worried about my voting being biassed. In fact, seeing the dynamics of ‘karma’ at play, and feeling the impact of the social forces so explicitly is a useful experience.
Nevertheless, the ‘social game’ is always a distraction that takes up valuable resources. I expect I’ll turn on your script fairly often, just so I can turn off the noise. I find it emotionally draining to go ahead and write posts that I know will be dissaproved of, yet still consider worth saying. All over an utterly insignficant and easily manipulated number on a server somewhere. Yet, I suppose that is just more visceral experience of the costs of rationality.
If only you could write one of those for real life. It’d make things so much less tiresome.