Ah yes. I don’t consider ignoring the email to be opting out. As soon as I’ve read the email, inaction is one of my two options. If I delete the email, there will be a post that says something like, “We won! Everyone we emailed decided to cooperate!” even though I didn’t choose to cooperate, I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to be involved in the first place.
If you had to opt-in, not opting in would be one of your two options. If you don’t opt-in, there would be a post that says something like “We won! Everyone who could opt in decided to cooperate!”
I think there’s an important difference between ’100 people opted-in to our community ritual, and all successfully coordinated’ and 200, but where 100 paid attention and 100 totally ignored the email. I don’t feel any notion of trust or coordination from people ignoring an email, or just not being interested.
That’s genuinely fine with me, I hope all the people who decide to embrace this shared ritual find it meaningful and fulfilling :)
Edit: Also then I would have 3 options, opting out, opting in and cooperating or opting in and defecting, which was exactly my point? Here the only way to signal that I’m not interested is by blowing up LessWrong.
Ah yes. I don’t consider ignoring the email to be opting out. As soon as I’ve read the email, inaction is one of my two options. If I delete the email, there will be a post that says something like, “We won! Everyone we emailed decided to cooperate!” even though I didn’t choose to cooperate, I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to be involved in the first place.
If you had to opt-in, not opting in would be one of your two options. If you don’t opt-in, there would be a post that says something like “We won! Everyone who could opt in decided to cooperate!”
I think there’s an important difference between ’100 people opted-in to our community ritual, and all successfully coordinated’ and 200, but where 100 paid attention and 100 totally ignored the email. I don’t feel any notion of trust or coordination from people ignoring an email, or just not being interested.
That’s genuinely fine with me, I hope all the people who decide to embrace this shared ritual find it meaningful and fulfilling :)
Edit: Also then I would have 3 options, opting out, opting in and cooperating or opting in and defecting, which was exactly my point? Here the only way to signal that I’m not interested is by blowing up LessWrong.
It seems like you are successfully signalling your lack of interest without blowing up LessWrong!
I think it would read something closer to “We won! Everyone who opted in decided to cooperate!”