I was thinking about that. No, it won’t. I’m using my own judgment to exclude some things which are upvoted to signal things other than the content of the post being ‘very rational’, or whatever. One of the most upvoted posts of last year was the announcement of a new moderator. The wouldn’t ‘have been included in the newsletter, as important as that is. Searching through the ‘top comments’ for last week, in making the first newsletter, more than half of them were highly upvoted predictions for what will happen next in HPMoR. Maybe some of them would be worth including, since virtually everyone reading the newsletter would also be interested in a compelling prediction of what will happen next in the plot. Maybe I’m biased by the fact I haven’t read the latest chapters yet, and I didn’t want the plot spoiled, so I skimmed those comments. Still, though, there were over a dozen lengthy HPMoR predictions. They don’t strike me as content fit for the newsletter.
I’m only reading this comment as this article indeed has reached 21 upvotes. It’d be pretty funny, and ‘meta’, if this was included. Your question is interesting, though, because it makes me clarify what are exceptions to inclusion.
Edit: it’s going to be weird if this announcement is the only post this week to pass a threshold of 20 upvotes. I count the ‘week’ on the same cycle as open threads posted on LessWrong. It’s only been two days since 2400 hours Sunday night, i.e., Monday night 0000 hours. Still, though, there is nothing new unrelated to HPMoR which passes the threshold. My hypothesis is everyone is too busy reading HPMoR, or discussing it, to bother producing other content. I’m only half-joking. The most upvoted comments for the last week are all predictions about what’s coming up in HPMoR. Like, how maybe the final trial for Harry will actually be a test of not letting the AI out of the box...
Should I break my rule of not including HPMoR-related content in the digest? If not, there will be nothing...
I’m now tempted to include this announcement of the newsletter in the newsletter just for the one-off recursion joke I can make.
As the digest is an experiment, don’t feel you have to stick too closely to a weekly schedule. I agree that the HPMoR discussion has dominated lately (for obvious reasons with the flood of new chapters and the impending conclusion), and the LW digest isn’t the place for those comments.
But I do think it’s a worthy exercise—not just for publicity elsewhere but locally to LW too: bringing attention to comments that may deserve even more attention than they already received.
If this article makes it to 20 votes will it be included in the newsletter?
I was thinking about that. No, it won’t. I’m using my own judgment to exclude some things which are upvoted to signal things other than the content of the post being ‘very rational’, or whatever. One of the most upvoted posts of last year was the announcement of a new moderator. The wouldn’t ‘have been included in the newsletter, as important as that is. Searching through the ‘top comments’ for last week, in making the first newsletter, more than half of them were highly upvoted predictions for what will happen next in HPMoR. Maybe some of them would be worth including, since virtually everyone reading the newsletter would also be interested in a compelling prediction of what will happen next in the plot. Maybe I’m biased by the fact I haven’t read the latest chapters yet, and I didn’t want the plot spoiled, so I skimmed those comments. Still, though, there were over a dozen lengthy HPMoR predictions. They don’t strike me as content fit for the newsletter.
I’m only reading this comment as this article indeed has reached 21 upvotes. It’d be pretty funny, and ‘meta’, if this was included. Your question is interesting, though, because it makes me clarify what are exceptions to inclusion.
Edit: it’s going to be weird if this announcement is the only post this week to pass a threshold of 20 upvotes. I count the ‘week’ on the same cycle as open threads posted on LessWrong. It’s only been two days since 2400 hours Sunday night, i.e., Monday night 0000 hours. Still, though, there is nothing new unrelated to HPMoR which passes the threshold. My hypothesis is everyone is too busy reading HPMoR, or discussing it, to bother producing other content. I’m only half-joking. The most upvoted comments for the last week are all predictions about what’s coming up in HPMoR. Like, how maybe the final trial for Harry will actually be a test of not letting the AI out of the box...
Should I break my rule of not including HPMoR-related content in the digest? If not, there will be nothing...
I’m now tempted to include this announcement of the newsletter in the newsletter just for the one-off recursion joke I can make.
As the digest is an experiment, don’t feel you have to stick too closely to a weekly schedule. I agree that the HPMoR discussion has dominated lately (for obvious reasons with the flood of new chapters and the impending conclusion), and the LW digest isn’t the place for those comments.
But I do think it’s a worthy exercise—not just for publicity elsewhere but locally to LW too: bringing attention to comments that may deserve even more attention than they already received.
I say go for it, but then my highest voted submission to discussion was this.