1 I did actually announce this on the Mnemnosyne and Anki mailing lists, but I received no responses. :(
2 I felt timid about advertising this on the mainpage, though I am not sure why in retrospect.
3-5 are good suggestions I hadn’t thought of. The question is how to generate similar suggestions for prizes in the future. I suppose 5 is obviously applicable, 4 probably applies to many contests, I’m not sure about 3. Perhaps ask if there are any famous figures in the field I am trying to summarize.
6 feels like it wouldn’t be effective to me, but I’m not sure why. I suppose the costs to trying this in the future are low.
1 I did actually announce this on the Mnemnosyne and Anki mailing lists, but I received no responses. :(
Whups! So you’re right. I replied with news about the verdict.
#2 is definitely something you should try. If there were no real prize, I think people might laugh at an attempt for the main page, but with that much skin in the game… at least, I would expect LessWrongers to respect someone putting a good chunk of money where their mouth is. They seem to’ve in the past, with reports about bets, prediction market trades, and SIAI donations all getting upvoted.
I suspect you feel about #6 the same way you feel about #2 - that it’s overreaching and arrogant. That is something you may want to look into if you feel the same way in a second contest of equivalent quality. (I understand ‘rejection therapy’ may help with that.)
EDIT: I’ve spent a fair bit of time messing with AdWords for my own purposes, and I think I have a handle on the basics, so I’d be willing to help out with future contests as far as that goes.
I think I would feel much more confident about a second prize. In the beginning I didn’t have other people helping me do this kind of work, but now I do.
1 I did actually announce this on the Mnemnosyne and Anki mailing lists, but I received no responses. :(
2 I felt timid about advertising this on the mainpage, though I am not sure why in retrospect.
3-5 are good suggestions I hadn’t thought of. The question is how to generate similar suggestions for prizes in the future. I suppose 5 is obviously applicable, 4 probably applies to many contests, I’m not sure about 3. Perhaps ask if there are any famous figures in the field I am trying to summarize.
6 feels like it wouldn’t be effective to me, but I’m not sure why. I suppose the costs to trying this in the future are low.
Thanks again :)
Whups! So you’re right. I replied with news about the verdict.
#2 is definitely something you should try. If there were no real prize, I think people might laugh at an attempt for the main page, but with that much skin in the game… at least, I would expect LessWrongers to respect someone putting a good chunk of money where their mouth is. They seem to’ve in the past, with reports about bets, prediction market trades, and SIAI donations all getting upvoted.
I suspect you feel about #6 the same way you feel about #2 - that it’s overreaching and arrogant. That is something you may want to look into if you feel the same way in a second contest of equivalent quality. (I understand ‘rejection therapy’ may help with that.)
EDIT: I’ve spent a fair bit of time messing with AdWords for my own purposes, and I think I have a handle on the basics, so I’d be willing to help out with future contests as far as that goes.
I think I would feel much more confident about a second prize. In the beginning I didn’t have other people helping me do this kind of work, but now I do.