I find it very concerning/dissapointing that this post has so many downvotes. Like the authors said, don’t use upvotes/downvotes to indicate agreement/disagreement!
I strongly upvoted this post because I think it’s very valuable and I highly appreciate the months of effort put into it. Thanks for writing it! I don’t know whether I agree or not on most proposals, but I think they’re interesting nonetheless.
Personally I’m most skeptical of some of the democratization proposals. Like how would you decide who can vote? And I think it would drastically slow down grant making etc., making us less effective. Others have already better worded these concerns elsewhere.
In general I would love to see most of these ideas being tried out. Either incrementally so we can easily revert back, or as small experiments. Even with ideas I’m only say 30% sure they will work. If the ideas fail, then at least we’ll have that information.
I very much agree that we should rely more on other experts and try to reinvent the wheel less. I had indeed never heard of the fields you mentioned before, which is sad.
I didn’t know your votes on the forum had more power the more karma you had! I’m really surprised. I was already wondering whether my strong votes had increased recently. I’m not sure I agree strong votes should be removed, I do think they’re really useful in expressing how much I appreciate a certain post. But the fact that your strong votes keep becoming more powerful the more karma you have is weird. I do think it makes sense to give more longtime/experienced EA’s more voting power to make sure the forum doesn’t become low-quality. But perhaps it can simply be that new users’ strong vote equals two votes, and the moment you get say 50-100 karma it equals 4-5 votes. But after that it doesn’t keep increasing.
I’m wondering how true the ‘heretics/critics don’t get funding’ is. Personally I aim to be honest/vocal about concerns I have, but since I don’t have highly valuable skills (according to the economic market) perhaps I should be more careful? I don’t want to and don’t feel like I should be more careful! And I hope I can trust EA leaders when they say they want more diversity of thought.
I didn’t downvote this post (nor did I upvote it), but I can understand why people might have downvoted. I can also understand people upvoting it given the clear effort involved.
I imagine that the people who downvoted it dislike proposals that don’t engage very strongly with the reasons why the proposals could actually be bad. I see this as reasonable, although I do expect most people have some bias here where they apply this expectation more strongly to posts they disagree with. I expect that I probably have this bias as well.
I find it very concerning/dissapointing that this post has so many downvotes. Like the authors said, don’t use upvotes/downvotes to indicate agreement/disagreement!
I strongly upvoted this post because I think it’s very valuable and I highly appreciate the months of effort put into it. Thanks for writing it! I don’t know whether I agree or not on most proposals, but I think they’re interesting nonetheless.
Personally I’m most skeptical of some of the democratization proposals. Like how would you decide who can vote? And I think it would drastically slow down grant making etc., making us less effective. Others have already better worded these concerns elsewhere.
In general I would love to see most of these ideas being tried out. Either incrementally so we can easily revert back, or as small experiments. Even with ideas I’m only say 30% sure they will work. If the ideas fail, then at least we’ll have that information.
I very much agree that we should rely more on other experts and try to reinvent the wheel less.
I had indeed never heard of the fields you mentioned before, which is sad.
I didn’t know your votes on the forum had more power the more karma you had! I’m really surprised. I was already wondering whether my strong votes had increased recently. I’m not sure I agree strong votes should be removed, I do think they’re really useful in expressing how much I appreciate a certain post. But the fact that your strong votes keep becoming more powerful the more karma you have is weird. I do think it makes sense to give more longtime/experienced EA’s more voting power to make sure the forum doesn’t become low-quality. But perhaps it can simply be that new users’ strong vote equals two votes, and the moment you get say 50-100 karma it equals 4-5 votes. But after that it doesn’t keep increasing.
I’m wondering how true the ‘heretics/critics don’t get funding’ is. Personally I aim to be honest/vocal about concerns I have, but since I don’t have highly valuable skills (according to the economic market) perhaps I should be more careful? I don’t want to and don’t feel like I should be more careful! And I hope I can trust EA leaders when they say they want more diversity of thought.
I didn’t downvote this post (nor did I upvote it), but I can understand why people might have downvoted. I can also understand people upvoting it given the clear effort involved.
I imagine that the people who downvoted it dislike proposals that don’t engage very strongly with the reasons why the proposals could actually be bad. I see this as reasonable, although I do expect most people have some bias here where they apply this expectation more strongly to posts they disagree with. I expect that I probably have this bias as well.