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

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Comment author: Larks 26 February 2010 10:01:10PM 5 points [-]

I don't think many people use karma to judge a member; rather, frequently reading their posts causes me to respect them, and this correlates with their karma.

Having said that, I am generalising from one case.

Incidentally, there's already quite a karma-market in discussing karma. You could easily generate most of your karma discussing karma.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2010 10:54:12PM 5 points [-]

Incidentally, there's already quite a karma-market in discussing karma. You could easily generate most of your karma discussing karma.

Upvoted.

Comment author: Jack 28 February 2010 12:46:29AM *  4 points [-]

You could easily generate most of your karma being cleverly meta and self-referential.

Comment author: Alicorn 28 February 2010 01:01:21AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 19 March 2010 09:45:08PM 2 points [-]

Incidentally, there's already quite a karma-market in discussing karma. You could easily generate most of your karma discussing karma.

Upvoted.

Upvoted to give you your 50,000th karma :-)

Comment author: ciphergoth 26 February 2010 11:38:32PM 1 point [-]

Is there any bound to the number of levels this works at? And if so, is this post at level omega?

Comment author: Jordan 28 February 2010 12:47:25AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: Blueberry 28 February 2010 01:12:04AM 0 points [-]

Was that just ordinal-dropping, or is there actually a reason why that particular ordinal has something to do with this situation?

Comment author: Jordan 28 February 2010 03:03:13AM 1 point [-]

ciphergoth's post was at the level w (omega). Posts about ciphergoth's post and posts about those resulting posts are at level w + 1, w + 2, etc. Posts about that entire sequence of posts would be level 2w. Then you can talk about the sequence (w, 2w, 3w, 4w, ...) itself. The recursive tower seems endless, but there actually is a least upper bound, and that bound is the Church-Kleene ordinal.

Comment author: Kevin 04 March 2010 11:51:39AM 0 points [-]

Ok, you get 100 w.

If anyone wants some w+1, 2w, etc, please explain why.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 26 February 2010 11:57:11PM 0 points [-]

I doubt it.

Comment author: ciphergoth 27 February 2010 10:46:00AM 2 points [-]

Well since it mentioned level omega, it has to be at level omega +1...