Drake Morrison

I agree it seems bad for a quick take to immediately collapse if as few as five people downvote, but I do think the downvotes mean something important.

I don't want to hesitate to downvote a quick take that I think should be downvoted.

Would it make sense to have the auto-collapse happen after 24 hours? Or perhaps a time-discounted thing based on number of votes?

I like the collapse feature in general, and think it's great for hiding bad comments/not drowning bad comments in downvotes.

See also: The First Sample Gives the Most Information

Here's my vote for Epistemic Roguelikes. It seems like a riskier path, but with a lot more upside. 

I really like A Crisper Explanation of Simulacrum Levels as another way to explain simulacrum levels.

I found this to be the most concrete post from the feedbackloop-first rationality sequence. I really appreciated the empiricist sort of frame of actually going out and trying to do a simple toy experiment to test some assumptions. Hope is blinding, and I remember more often to double-check my thinking for it after reading this post. 

I consider this idea essential social technology on the level of "the map is not the territory." super basic, but it's everywhere once you learn to see it. I think about and make use of this concept on a weekly basis. Definitely seems worthy of consideration for Best Of to me. 

I think Inkhaven is aiming at quality via the pathway of quantity. See the experiment by Jerry Uelsmann^[1]

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   https://austinkleon.com/2020/12/10/quantity-leads-to-quality-the-origin-of-a-parable/

Seem like ripe opportunities for posts

Nitter thread (don't need to sign in to Twitter)

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/DKokotajlo/status/1992316608073847201

For grounding data, I keep thinking of Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford. Doing some kind of wood-carving or pottery or painting or sketching animals on nature walks, or something like that seems well-advised. Also works as a toy problem to practice new skills on. 

When I think of high quality, I tend to think of a high signal to noise ratio. This got me thinking, why isn't karma [net upvotes / number of posts and comments]? Upvotes are relatively good measure of signal, but I don't only care about lots of signal, I also care about an absence of noise to wade through. 

Thoughts?

If they don't tell you how to hold them accountable, its a Chaotic intention, not a Lawful commitment

• Robust communication requires feedback. Knowing you received all the packets of information, and checking whether what you received matches what they sent. 
• Building ideas vs breaking ideas. Related to Babble and Prune, but for communities. Shortform seems like a good place for ideas to develop, or babble. For ideas to be built together, before you critique things. You can destroy a half built idea, even if it's a good idea.