After changing mental stack, it seems obvious that for abstract task “writing my thoughts on lesswrong such that they get positive karma in expectation”, giving up after only three posts actually got any karma is just nonsensical. I need a sample of at least 15.
The reason I didn’t notice that before seems to be that humans don’t have fixed preference functions—it changes with mood and feelings. And didn’t notice how my pseudo utility function was hijacked by fleeting feelings in such fashion that it’s change became reflectively stable. But now I am not at all confident that I actually should include those feelings into my pseudo utility function. And if no, it boils down to whether I can effectively ignore them or not have them.
Though… I still feel surprised how pleasant as experience it may be to read posts on lesswrong and how unpleasant to post something of your own. Maybe, I thought they should be positively correlated, but in fact there are mechanisms that make them work as opposites?
And I am still surprised that my posts did get so negative karma. Iirc, I never got so much negative as to be literally hidden. I really, really don’t understand why. It seems in the past I wrote much worse comments, what I write now seems to be much more clear, goal oriented etc, but still it was rated as much worse than anything else I ever wrote. Including a post where I used the sequences as a reason to claim that my political preferences were right all along and I don’t need to change them from arguments.
After changing mental stack, it seems obvious that for abstract task “writing my thoughts on lesswrong such that they get positive karma in expectation”, giving up after only three posts actually got any karma is just nonsensical. I need a sample of at least 15.
The reason I didn’t notice that before seems to be that humans don’t have fixed preference functions—it changes with mood and feelings. And didn’t notice how my pseudo utility function was hijacked by fleeting feelings in such fashion that it’s change became reflectively stable. But now I am not at all confident that I actually should include those feelings into my pseudo utility function. And if no, it boils down to whether I can effectively ignore them or not have them.
Though… I still feel surprised how pleasant as experience it may be to read posts on lesswrong and how unpleasant to post something of your own. Maybe, I thought they should be positively correlated, but in fact there are mechanisms that make them work as opposites?
And I am still surprised that my posts did get so negative karma. Iirc, I never got so much negative as to be literally hidden. I really, really don’t understand why. It seems in the past I wrote much worse comments, what I write now seems to be much more clear, goal oriented etc, but still it was rated as much worse than anything else I ever wrote. Including a post where I used the sequences as a reason to claim that my political preferences were right all along and I don’t need to change them from arguments.