I am sad they’re not getting as much use. I have wondered if they would work well as part of the comment section UI, where if you’re having a back-and-forth with someone, the site instead offers you “Would you like to have a dialogue instead?” with a single button.
Dialogues are more difficult to create (if done well between people with different beliefs), and are less pleasant to read, but are often higher value for reaching true beliefs as a group.
Hmm good point. Looking at your dialogues has changed my mind, they have higher karma than the ones I was looking at.
You might also be unusual on some axis that makes arguments easier. It takes me a lot of time to go over peoples words and work out what beliefs are consistent with them. And the inverse, translating model to words, also takes a while.
I don’t see a reason to give dialogues more karma than posts, but I agree posts (including dialogues) are under-incentivized relative to comments.
I am sad they’re not getting as much use. I have wondered if they would work well as part of the comment section UI, where if you’re having a back-and-forth with someone, the site instead offers you “Would you like to have a dialogue instead?” with a single button.
Dialogues are more difficult to create (if done well between people with different beliefs), and are less pleasant to read, but are often higher value for reaching true beliefs as a group.
The dialogues I’ve done have all been substantially less time investment than basically any of my posts.
Hmm good point. Looking at your dialogues has changed my mind, they have higher karma than the ones I was looking at.
You might also be unusual on some axis that makes arguments easier. It takes me a lot of time to go over peoples words and work out what beliefs are consistent with them. And the inverse, translating model to words, also takes a while.