On LessWrong both upvotes and downvotes can be cast without commenting.
When designing systems such as this, rationalists are usually thinking hard about the underlying dynamics instead of orienting themselves at bumper sticker slogans like “We have to ensure that consensus is scientific”
If you send a physics crackpot theory to a scientific journal, they are not going to explain to you in detail why they disagree with your crackpot theory. Nothing about how science is practiced is about one having a right to get criticism for every idea.
Having mechanisms by which bad ideas aren’t consuming too much attention is essential for scientific progress.
I agree that one shouldn’t have a right to get criticism for every idea. But maybe some ideas are worth criticism? Maybe some attitudes are worth being questioned? Is there a possibility for moderators to handle such situations manually?
I’m brainstorming—maybe propositions that are logically sound (for example proven with LEAN) shouldn’t be as vulnerable to downvotes as unproven?
On LessWrong both upvotes and downvotes can be cast without commenting.
When designing systems such as this, rationalists are usually thinking hard about the underlying dynamics instead of orienting themselves at bumper sticker slogans like “We have to ensure that consensus is scientific”
If you send a physics crackpot theory to a scientific journal, they are not going to explain to you in detail why they disagree with your crackpot theory. Nothing about how science is practiced is about one having a right to get criticism for every idea.
Having mechanisms by which bad ideas aren’t consuming too much attention is essential for scientific progress.
I agree that one shouldn’t have a right to get criticism for every idea. But maybe some ideas are worth criticism? Maybe some attitudes are worth being questioned? Is there a possibility for moderators to handle such situations manually?
I’m brainstorming—maybe propositions that are logically sound (for example proven with LEAN) shouldn’t be as vulnerable to downvotes as unproven?
If a proposal makes bad assumptions about what’s true and is logically sound it’s still a bad proposal.
Yep, that was brainstorm, feel free to offer better approach