This practice works when applied to a book, but would be harmful if applied to your entire life. I make factual errors all the time—sometimes I’m wrong about what the canteen is serving today or I misremember the capital of Niger—but it’s not worth paying people to point it out.
In particular, the admin cost would be very heavy. Imagine you spend five minutes sending someone money every time you notice you made a mistake. You could easily spend 10-30 minutes every day just sending people money. Wouldn’t that time be better spent working or reading or sleeping?
In fact, I think you would quickly be incentivized not to say anything you’re uncertain about. At best, it would lead to excessive hedging which would make you appear less confident and likely hurt your career. At worst, you’d be so loathe to make a mistake that you wouldn’t speak up on a topic you’re uncertain about, even if your contributions could help someone.
In fact, I think you would quickly be incentivized not to say anything you’re uncertain about. At best, it would lead to excessive hedging which would make you appear less confident and likely hurt your career. At worst, you’d be so loathe to make a mistake that you wouldn’t speak up on a topic you’re uncertain about, even if your contributions could help someone.
I think you make solid points, though I think you could limit it to some type of important post and certain types of concepts. eg “only when I state something as true in my blog posts”
Likewise, I often think declaring our uncertainty would be better for us as a species. Learning to should “I don’t know” as loudly as the yesses and nos in a debate would I think be helpful to most debates also.
This practice works when applied to a book, but would be harmful if applied to your entire life. I make factual errors all the time—sometimes I’m wrong about what the canteen is serving today or I misremember the capital of Niger—but it’s not worth paying people to point it out.
In particular, the admin cost would be very heavy. Imagine you spend five minutes sending someone money every time you notice you made a mistake. You could easily spend 10-30 minutes every day just sending people money. Wouldn’t that time be better spent working or reading or sleeping?
In fact, I think you would quickly be incentivized not to say anything you’re uncertain about. At best, it would lead to excessive hedging which would make you appear less confident and likely hurt your career. At worst, you’d be so loathe to make a mistake that you wouldn’t speak up on a topic you’re uncertain about, even if your contributions could help someone.
I think you make solid points, though I think you could limit it to some type of important post and certain types of concepts. eg “only when I state something as true in my blog posts”
Likewise, I often think declaring our uncertainty would be better for us as a species. Learning to should “I don’t know” as loudly as the yesses and nos in a debate would I think be helpful to most debates also.