EDIT: I don’t think this comment should get more than say 10-20 karma. I think it was a quick suggestion/correction that Richard ended up following, not too insightful or useful.
Cool that you pointed this out! I have the impression comments like yours just above often get lots of karma on EA Forum, particularly when coming from people who already have lots of karma. I wonder whether that is good.
Yeah I think it’s suboptimal. It makes sense that the comment had a lot of agree-votes. It’d also make more sense to upvote if Richard didn’t add in his COI after my comment, because then making the comment go up in visibility had a practical value of a) making sure almost everybody who reads Richard’s comment notices the COI and b) making it more likely for Richard to change his mind.
But given that Richard updated very quickly (in <1 hour), I think additional upvotes after his edit were superfluous.
I agree there’s a bias where the points more popular people make are evaluated more generously, but in this case I think the karma is well deserved. The COI point is important, and Linch highlights its importance with a relevant yet brief personal story. And while the comment was quick for Linch to make, some people in the EA community would hesitate to point out a conflict of interest in public for fear of being seen as a troublemaker, so the counterfactual impact is higher than it might seem. I strongly upvoted the comment.
Hi Linch,
Cool that you pointed this out! I have the impression comments like yours just above often get lots of karma on EA Forum, particularly when coming from people who already have lots of karma. I wonder whether that is good.
Yeah I think it’s suboptimal. It makes sense that the comment had a lot of agree-votes. It’d also make more sense to upvote if Richard didn’t add in his COI after my comment, because then making the comment go up in visibility had a practical value of a) making sure almost everybody who reads Richard’s comment notices the COI and b) making it more likely for Richard to change his mind.
But given that Richard updated very quickly (in <1 hour), I think additional upvotes after his edit were superfluous.
I agree there’s a bias where the points more popular people make are evaluated more generously, but in this case I think the karma is well deserved. The COI point is important, and Linch highlights its importance with a relevant yet brief personal story. And while the comment was quick for Linch to make, some people in the EA community would hesitate to point out a conflict of interest in public for fear of being seen as a troublemaker, so the counterfactual impact is higher than it might seem. I strongly upvoted the comment.