Most suggestions here are disagreed with, but that’s hardly enough justification not to push forward on them. Only hardcore EAs vote on the forum, disgruntled EAs would not come across them.
This seems unlikely to be the explanation to me. Voters on the forum frequently give very high karma to highly critical and disgruntled top level posts (indeed, I think it is actually easier to get karma writing such posts than more positive ones). I think the true explanation is probably that going from vague complaints to concrete suggestions makes them much easier to critique and see the problems.
By the way, I think it’s really cool of you, Nathan, to nourish this conversation.
I think it’s a conversation we should never stop having, and we should create online and offline spaces where it can happen.
Most suggestions here are disagreed with, but that’s hardly enough justification not to push forward on them. Only hardcore EAs vote on the forum, disgruntled EAs would not come across them.
This seems unlikely to be the explanation to me. Voters on the forum frequently give very high karma to highly critical and disgruntled top level posts (indeed, I think it is actually easier to get karma writing such posts than more positive ones). I think the true explanation is probably that going from vague complaints to concrete suggestions makes them much easier to critique and see the problems.