The dominant model about status in LW seems to be one of relative influence.
I don’t understand what that means. I understand that the core of your post is “giving more praise would be good”, and this quote isn’t the point, but I don’t understand it. What is a “status model”? Is it something LW inherently has, or something that each user has separately? “Social status”, is a sort of score assigned to each person, that we mostly agree on (that’s what makes is social). So I can say “EY has high status in LW”. But what is a status model and how is it “of relative influence”? Saying “zero-sum” means that for someone to gain status someone else needs to lose it, but I don’t know if I have seen that happen. More generally, in my mind “status” is fairly constant and giving it cheaply would sort of miss the point of having it, but maybe I don’t really understand what it’s for to begin with.
There is also an issue of evaluating P(“user X is full of shit”), which is somewhat related, and maybe some of us (e.g. me) aren’t charitable enough. But then that’s not a problem solved by praise.
I don’t understand what that means. I understand that the core of your post is “giving more praise would be good”, and this quote isn’t the point, but I don’t understand it. What is a “status model”? Is it something LW inherently has, or something that each user has separately? “Social status”, is a sort of score assigned to each person, that we mostly agree on (that’s what makes is social). So I can say “EY has high status in LW”. But what is a status model and how is it “of relative influence”? Saying “zero-sum” means that for someone to gain status someone else needs to lose it, but I don’t know if I have seen that happen. More generally, in my mind “status” is fairly constant and giving it cheaply would sort of miss the point of having it, but maybe I don’t really understand what it’s for to begin with.
There is also an issue of evaluating P(“user X is full of shit”), which is somewhat related, and maybe some of us (e.g. me) aren’t charitable enough. But then that’s not a problem solved by praise.