Well Nathan, you know that I want to say “why are you paying attention to karma, you know karma is a bad proxy for what you care about”, and believe me I’ve done way worse than 10 hours for 40 points multiple times. But maybe the point is that karma is awarded on writing style more than anything else?
does important EA have a crisis on its hands, that researchers who need engagement to thrive aren’t getting the comments they need? Number of comments and karma are sorta correlated, right.
I think karma is awarded more by generality of subject matter than writing style per se? This post I spent a few hours on (including the hour I spent rereading the book) has x3 the karma of another post I put up around the same time that represents the outcome of about a year of part-time research.
And this is perfectly natural! Everyone on the EA forum has some reason to care about good writing, only some small subset of people on the EA forum have some reason to care about genetic engineering detection.
Well Nathan, you know that I want to say “why are you paying attention to karma, you know karma is a bad proxy for what you care about”, and believe me I’ve done way worse than 10 hours for 40 points multiple times. But maybe the point is that karma is awarded on writing style more than anything else?
does important EA have a crisis on its hands, that researchers who need engagement to thrive aren’t getting the comments they need? Number of comments and karma are sorta correlated, right.
I think karma is awarded more by generality of subject matter than writing style per se? This post I spent a few hours on (including the hour I spent rereading the book) has x3 the karma of another post I put up around the same time that represents the outcome of about a year of part-time research.
And this is perfectly natural! Everyone on the EA forum has some reason to care about good writing, only some small subset of people on the EA forum have some reason to care about genetic engineering detection.