Something always felt wrong when somebody said “because I say so”, so the truth from others couldn’t be trusted. I knew I wanted never to become the kind of person who answers with “because I say so”.
Lawliet
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Is this to be a book that somebody could give to their grandmother and expect the first page to convince her that the second is worth reading?
Other sites with similar systems have a constant stream of junk posts that nobody sees, wasnt the promotion/voting system meant to bring the rare good ones out of the junk?
If you’re hoping for a growing community, wont it be even harder to maintain a slow post rate?
Eliezer and Robin decide what gets promoted, if the site gets a lot of junk on it, then thats presumably going to be a pretty important role.
4 digit karma total should be common soon enough, several users are past 100 after mere days.
Minor problem, but at this rate the green circles are in trouble.
There’s a bug that shows users as having millions of karma, the excess numbers just spill over the side.
I don’t think that the idea was that the higher your score the more rational you are, but I do agree that the “Top Contributors” thing seems to be more trouble than it’s worth.
That makes a lot of sense. Anyone object to that?
If they are useful, shouldn’t you be glad to hear objections?
If you could gave me a magic button to kill 10 people and make me rich, without any tricky business (like risk of being punished) then I would push it.
I should also hope that nobody else would, and by the sound of things many wouldn’t.
Why cant linked articles be promoted? Do they have to be original content written specifically for LessWrong? Can they be cross posted elsewhere?
I don’t go around telling people, and if I was in the audience I would raise my hand with everybody else.
Do you mean you would rather commit one stranger to poverty than kill ten people, or that you being in poverty is worse than ten strangers dying, but a stranger in poverty is not?
Teach everyone else to cooperate then defect
Congratulations, you’ve written the most horrifying sentence I’ve read all day.
Tricking the other player is never justified? Did I miss something?
Even better to address as many as possible, making them all feel like they are being specifically targeted
“Hey you with the dark hair”
I dont know much about charity, but I dont contest that this was made up in a day.
“Never fix the worst problem first, because thats the way skin heals”
Curious, are you proud of how difficult you find lying?
Useful ego booster too.
When the site crashes it says things like “looks like today isn’t your day” or “it’s okay to cry”.
One of these phrases links you to the reddit blog, another links to the reddit store, leftovers I guess.
On what basis will free people vote on an idea they disagree with but that is explained well? A hilarious but unrelated pun? A brilliant comment on a post that has nothing to do with it? A valid point by a well known troll?