You seem to be coming from the premise that there is plenty of praise out there, just not in the right places. But the point of the post is that there just isn’t enough praise out there. Gut-level appreciation, the thing I want people to have for me, isn’t zero sum. They can have it for both building things and shiny blogs.
You also seem to assume that we should be using praise as an incentive. I’m on the fence about that. Maybe praise (or let’s call it respect or personhood or appreciation here) should be the bottom level, and people can actually do things for their own worth.
I, for one, actually want things to be built regardless of social incentives, and I imagine being socially “satiated” will give me a lot more resources to actually allocate on building things (especially things that are hard to signal with).
Reminds me of project Hufflepuff. That’s about getting people to do things that are good but hard to signal with, which is impossible if those people have a status deficit.
You seem to be coming from the premise that there is plenty of praise out there, just not in the right places. But the point of the post is that there just isn’t enough praise out there. Gut-level appreciation, the thing I want people to have for me, isn’t zero sum. They can have it for both building things and shiny blogs.
You also seem to assume that we should be using praise as an incentive. I’m on the fence about that. Maybe praise (or let’s call it respect or personhood or appreciation here) should be the bottom level, and people can actually do things for their own worth.
I, for one, actually want things to be built regardless of social incentives, and I imagine being socially “satiated” will give me a lot more resources to actually allocate on building things (especially things that are hard to signal with).
Reminds me of project Hufflepuff. That’s about getting people to do things that are good but hard to signal with, which is impossible if those people have a status deficit.