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I've been thinking of how to build on the #LessWrongMoreNice idea while taking some criticisms into account, and thought about something that seems to only have upsides - namely, creating a Gratitude thread. It would make the overall tone of LW more positive, without impeding the honest criticism. There's a lot of research showing that expressing gratitude improves mental and physical health. Thoughts?
I appreciate your efforts, but I need to point out that I am strongly opposed to this sort of idea, and anything else that explicitly turns LW into group therapy.
Introducing niceness into discussions on LW is not the same as changing the topic of discussions away from where it belongs, which is epistemic and instrumental rationality.
The discussion of how to use expressing gratitude to improve mental health, and how effective it is for LW folk, definitely belongs to LW. However creating an object-level gratitude thread feels like a step in the wrong direction (or at least, it seems sensible to keep it as a sub-thread in the open thread).
#LessWrongMoreNice
Alright, fair enough. Chalk this up as a failed experiment, no replication necessary :-)
do it.
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What are the special rules involved that are mentioned in the thread? Are they the same as the Happiness Thread?
Pretty much
Oy, the gratitude thread is getting some deterioration into discussions of Intentional Insights. Perhaps I shouldn't be the one to post it next time, as some people have strong negative triggering about the outreach I do.
My main goal is not to get karma/brownie points for the success of this project, but to have the project succeed and help make LW a nicer place.
So what are thoughts about whether I should be the one to post it next time?
Definitely not. It looked seriously awkward to me.