Jayson_Virissimo comments on Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 15 December 2014 04:39:14AM 5 points [-]

If only publicly verifiable/falsifiable predictions were permitted, would you have stuck around?

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 December 2014 02:08:12PM 3 points [-]

I think the issue is not about allowing/disallowing such predictions but having good tagging that tags all those predictions with "private life" and then the option of people to block that tag the way you can block tags on stackexchange.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 December 2014 02:13:08PM 1 point [-]

Yes, one of the most common issues people have brought up with PredictionBook is the lack of tagging in general which also makes it harder to search for predictions. I tried at one point to add comments to my predictions of the form [tag] but it didn't work very well and no one else was doing it. If there were a formal way to do it with searchable categories that would be really helpful.

Comment author: MathiasZaman 15 December 2014 12:42:22PM 2 points [-]

Rather than simply forbidding them, I'd suggest having various sharing options ranging from "public" over "people I invite" to "just me."

Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2014 02:00:41PM 1 point [-]

If anyone is going to implement such a thing, I think it'd be important to have separate calibration curves for each class of publicity.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 16 December 2014 06:10:43PM *  0 points [-]

It has a "just me" mode that the authors of those questions should use, but don't.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2014 01:59:48PM 0 points [-]

No; that's too restrictive. It just needed more moderation and a lot more love.