Wei_Dai comments on Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Wei_Dai 24 November 2009 10:29PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 25 November 2009 10:33:19PM 2 points [-]

I forgot to ask, why are you not optimistic about this approach?

Comment author: RobinHanson 25 November 2009 11:05:55PM 2 points [-]

The ambiguities seem difficult to surmount. Conversation is a highly evolved system and random changes are usually for the worse.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 25 November 2009 11:54:44PM 7 points [-]

The ambiguities seem difficult to surmount.

What ambiguities are you referring to? My proposed norm seems quite clear, compared to other standard norms such as "don't flame or troll".

Conversation is a highly evolved system

Online conversations, being recent invention, probably has lots of room for improvement.

random changes are usually for the worse.

Agreed, which why I try to suggest non-random changes. :)