I would feel better if your post was more of the following form: “I am curious about the actual level of agreement with IABI, here is a list of directly quoted claims made in the book (which I put in the comments below). React with agree/disagree about each claim. If your answer is instead “mu”, then you can argue about it or something idk. Please also feel free to comment claims the book makes which you are interested in getting a survey of LessWrong opinions on yourself”.
I think I would actually strong-upvote this post if it existed, provided the moderation seemed appropriate, and the seeded claims concrete and not phrased leadingly.
Edit: Bonus points for encouraging people to use the probability reacts rather than agree/disagree reacts.
Thanks. The reactions to such a post would constitute a stronger common knowledge signal of community agreement with the book (to the degree that such agreement is in fact present in the community).
I wonder if it would be better to make the agree-voting anonymous (like LW post voting) or with people’s names attached to their votes (like react-voting).
I’m sure this is going too far for you, but I also personally wish LW could go even further toward turning a sufficient amount of mutual support expressed in that form (if it turns out to exist) into a frontpage that actually looks like what most humans expect a supportive front page around a big event to look like (moreso than having a banner mentioning it and discussion mentioning it).
I would feel better if your post was more of the following form: “I am curious about the actual level of agreement with IABI, here is a list of directly quoted claims made in the book (which I put in the comments below). React with agree/disagree about each claim. If your answer is instead “mu”, then you can argue about it or something idk. Please also feel free to comment claims the book makes which you are interested in getting a survey of LessWrong opinions on yourself”.
I think I would actually strong-upvote this post if it existed, provided the moderation seemed appropriate, and the seeded claims concrete and not phrased leadingly.
Edit: Bonus points for encouraging people to use the probability reacts rather than agree/disagree reacts.
Thanks. The reactions to such a post would constitute a stronger common knowledge signal of community agreement with the book (to the degree that such agreement is in fact present in the community).
I wonder if it would be better to make the agree-voting anonymous (like LW post voting) or with people’s names attached to their votes (like react-voting).
I’m sure this is going too far for you, but I also personally wish LW could go even further toward turning a sufficient amount of mutual support expressed in that form (if it turns out to exist) into a frontpage that actually looks like what most humans expect a supportive front page around a big event to look like (moreso than having a banner mentioning it and discussion mentioning it).