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When I design twitter polls I often try to choose options such that I expect equal numbers of people to vote for each of the options.

I haven't been deliberately optimizing my LessWrong shortforms for that, but it seems to be happening a lot lately anyway.

(The disanalogy that makes this less interesting is that people can see the post's agree-karma before voting, unlike on twitter polls.)

Yes, the agreement dynamics is rather ridiculous. As far as I understand, the takes about your failure to receive a position in Resolution, the rant about Amodei and, presumably, the criticism of EA have^[1] hit important controversies. IMO the quick take about the rough draft of the new curriculum wasn't supposed to receive any agreement or disagreements because the new world model was located in the curriculum itself.

My position is that the new world model is worthy of a more thorough study, but (edit: its politics-related part) suffers from severe overr... (read more)

Richard Ngo's Shortform

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