Elo comments on Preference over null preference - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: Elo 05 September 2016 12:47PM

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Comment author: sdr 05 September 2016 02:35:48PM 6 points [-]

Elo,

You seem to be posting, like, a lot. This is good, this is what we have personal blogs for.

I do have an issue with syndicating your content straight to here, regardless of state, amount of research, amount of prior discussion with other people, confidence, or epistemic status. This introduces an asymetric opportunity cost on behalf of the lesswrong community; specifically, writing these is much easier, and lower effort, than the amount of effort these will collectively soak up for no gain.

For this reason, I have downvoted this post as is. I will also kindly ask of you to introduce a pre-syndication filter, which respects other people's limited amount of time, and attention; and cross-post only the ones where you have 1, a coherent thesis, and 2, validated interest coming from other people (as in, someone explicitely remarked "that's interesting").

Thanks.

Comment author: Elo 06 September 2016 12:27:26AM -2 points [-]

Edit: I assume when you said this:

writing these is much easier, and lower effort, than the amount of effort these will collectively soak up for no gain

you mean to say that energy required to write contrasted to energy required to read which is far greater when multiplied by the audience size. (Writing might take 2 hours, reading might take 20 people 10 mins each or 200 hours of burden created, leading to concerns about the virtue of silence, being a burden on the community and destroying the commons of "quality posts", given that my posts are not as top-notch as some things we consider sequence posts.

which respects other people's limited amount of time, and attention

I have already left a few posts out of lesswrong. Happy to leave a few more out. My general area of topic comes from the lw slack most of the time.

It's very hard to make judgement calls and I do get them wrong. I would welcome any help you can offer.

As I said just below:

I am still experimenting with styles of posts. You may recall recently the chat-log, model of argument, no negative press, mental models.

And:

I don't suppose there are ideas you would like to see written about? Or maybe you would like to collaborate on my drafts before they hit the main group (open to anyone who wants to PM me and join the existing draft-readers).

I was previously using karma to guide which posts were good or bad or should stay or be honed, but there's currently a spanner in that system.

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