prase comments on Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 14 September 2010 05:43:04PM 5 points [-]

Most readers never see posts that don't get the green button.

Are there some available statistics about that?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 September 2010 06:57:55PM *  2 points [-]

Not that I know of. You can see that green-button posts have higher scores than the white-button posts; but you would expect that in any case; they're supposed to be better posts.

I believe most people don't see the white-button posts because

  • a) If you go to lesswrong.com, you don't see the white-button posts
  • b) If you're reading overcoming bias, it only links to the green-button posts
  • c) When a post gets a green button, the rate of upvoting increases dramatically, even if the article is several days old.
Comment author: prase 15 September 2010 11:52:46AM 3 points [-]

That sounds reasonable. When I go to lesswrong.com, I usually first look at "Recent Posts" and don't care about the button color. But it is probably not generic. (I haven't even known that greenness is awarded by EY.)

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