Kaj_Sotala comments on A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Wei_Dai 29 December 2009 01:02AM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 29 December 2009 09:05:53AM -2 points [-]

I'd upvote this comment twice if I could.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 December 2009 09:14:39AM 1 point [-]

I'd upvote this comment twice if I could.

p(wedrifid would upvote a comment twice | he upvoted it once) > 0.95

Would other people have a different approach?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 29 December 2009 11:15:07AM *  0 points [-]

I'd use some loose scale where the quality of the comment correlated with the amount of upvotes it got. Assuming that a user could give up to two upvotes per comment, then a funny one-liner or a moderately interesting comment would get one vote, truly insightful ones two.

p(Kaj would upvote a comment twice | he upvoted it once) would probably be somewhere around [.3, .6]

Comment author: wedrifid 29 December 2009 11:54:02AM 0 points [-]

I'd use some loose scale where the quality of the comment correlated with the amount of upvotes it got.

That's the scale I use. Unfortunately, my ability to (directly) influence how many upvotes it gets is limited to a plus or minus one shift.