Morendil comments on Creating a Less Wrong prediction market - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 26 February 2010 01:00:10PM *  18 points [-]

Karma provides an incentive structure for the production of LessWrong content; changing that structure without understanding the possible consequences, good and ill, might be unadvisable.

On the other hand, creating a new "play" currency, redeemable in donations and tied to various games that exercise the skills valued by this community - such as good calibration and discrimination - that could be a useful and fun project.

Comment author: brazil84 26 February 2010 02:36:40PM 2 points [-]

I agree. It seems that most people have a standby rationality mode which kicks in when their personal interests come into play.