I was also a participant. I engaged less than I wanted mostly due to the amount of effort this demanded and losing more and more intrinsic motivation.
Some vague recollections:
Everything took more time than expected and that decreased my motivation a bunch
E.g. I just saw one note that one pandemic-related initial forecast took me ~90 minutes
I think making legible notes requires effort and I invested more time into this than others.
Also reading up on things takes a bunch of time if you’re new to a field (I think GPT-4 would’ve especially helped with making this faster)
Getting feedback from others took a while I think, IIRC most often more than a week? By the point I received feedback I basically forgot everything again and could only go by my own notes
It was effortful to read the notes from most others, I think they often were just written hastily
What could have caused me to engage more with others?
I think the idea of having experts just focus on questions they have some expertise in is a good idea to get me to try to think through other people’s vague and messy notes more, ask more questions, etc.
Probably also having smaller teams (like ~3-5 people) would’ve made the tournament feel more engaging, I basically didn’t develop anything close to a connection with anyone in my team because they were just a dozen of mostly anonymous usernames.
I was also a participant. I engaged less than I wanted mostly due to the amount of effort this demanded and losing more and more intrinsic motivation.
Some vague recollections:
Everything took more time than expected and that decreased my motivation a bunch
E.g. I just saw one note that one pandemic-related initial forecast took me ~90 minutes
I think making legible notes requires effort and I invested more time into this than others.
Also reading up on things takes a bunch of time if you’re new to a field (I think GPT-4 would’ve especially helped with making this faster)
Getting feedback from others took a while I think, IIRC most often more than a week? By the point I received feedback I basically forgot everything again and could only go by my own notes
It was effortful to read the notes from most others, I think they often were just written hastily
What could have caused me to engage more with others?
I think the idea of having experts just focus on questions they have some expertise in is a good idea to get me to try to think through other people’s vague and messy notes more, ask more questions, etc.
Probably also having smaller teams (like ~3-5 people) would’ve made the tournament feel more engaging, I basically didn’t develop anything close to a connection with anyone in my team because they were just a dozen of mostly anonymous usernames.