CellBioGuy comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51:29PM 1 point [-]

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 March 2014 05:22:22AM 5 points [-]

You could do this with polls instead of karma. The advantage of karma is that it provides an incentive for people to play to win. The disadvantage is hiding comments.

Comment author: Fhyve 14 March 2014 04:31:47AM 2 points [-]

I agree. I want to comment on some of the downvoted posts, but I don't want to pay the karma

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 13 March 2014 11:22:56PM *  1 point [-]

"provides an incentive for people to play to win"

You mean an incentive to hold irrational beliefs? Is that something we want to incentivize?

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 16 March 2014 02:41:34AM 1 point [-]

No, not to hold irrational beliefs, but to admit to holding irrational beliefs.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 14 March 2014 02:10:14AM 1 point [-]

Great idea. I'll put a note in the post so that if anyone ever resurrects this in the future they'll do it that way.

Comment author: Ixiel 13 March 2014 09:16:39AM 3 points [-]

Should we down vote posts with many propositions if we agree with a majority? One? All? There are already two split clusters for me.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 14 March 2014 02:09:33AM 0 points [-]

Hmm. I'd recommend if the split has one that's much stronger go with that vote, otherwise leave it at zero and explain in a comment.

Comment author: gwern 12 March 2014 03:43:29PM 8 points [-]

Why are we reviving this at all?

Comment author: falenas108 12 March 2014 04:15:05PM 4 points [-]

This is a time that the system of hiding votes less than -3 is a bad thing. In this thread, downvotes indicate that a belief that people may have thought was rare is actually pretty common on LW, which is something I'm interested in seeing.

Comment author: bramflakes 12 March 2014 03:42:15PM *  2 points [-]

Am I allowed to post about whether a counterfactual world would be "better" in some sense, if I specify something like "If Y had happened instead of X, the number of excess deaths from then till now would be lower / economic growth would have been better" ? I don't know whether that falls under preferences disguised as beliefs.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 14 March 2014 02:18:56AM 0 points [-]

Perhaps you can try to turn it in a more generalized form?

Comment author: bramflakes 14 March 2014 11:19:11AM 0 points [-]

How do you mean?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 March 2014 12:26:13AM 2 points [-]

Warning: the comments section of this post will look odd. The most reasonable comments will have lots of negative karma. Do not be alarmed, it's all part of the plan. In order to participate in this game you should disable any viewing threshold for negatively voted comments.

Unfortunately, since the first irrationality game, the hiding code was changed so that this is no longer possible.

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