A report about LessWrong karma volatility from a different universe
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Other things that happened that we did not have the time to report on:
- Kelsey Piper publishes some LessWrong PMs with Oliver Habryka where he reveals himself to have secretly been a negative utilitarian this entire time.
- The authorship of all posts and comments in the last 90 days are given to Jaan Tallinn, Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Bankman-Fried.
- Scott Alexander opens up about being the personal psychiatrist of all the rationalists involved and writes an op-ed in the NYT about giving them all amphetamines.
My thanks to Chana Messinger for coming up with the whole idea of reporting on this with me, and to Ricki Heicklen and Avital Morris for help fleshing it out.
Also, Oliver Habryka was accused of spending ill-gotten karma on a lavish lifestyle. In response, Habryka says he was not spending other people’s internet points on his extravagant lifestyle and in fact he sleeps on a coffee table in the office because he’s always working, and shared a picture to prove it.
The LessWrong Review runs every year to select the posts that have most stood the test of time. This post is not yet eligible for review, but will be at the end of 2024. The top fifty or so posts are featured prominently on the site throughout the year.
Hopefully, the review is better than karma at judging enduring value. If we have accurate prediction markets on the review results, maybe we can have better incentives on LessWrong today. Will this post make the top fifty?
Thanks. I wish I'd had the time to flesh it out into a full-site event, but I got more crunched than usual this week (and we also had the debate/dialogue feature launching which is cool).
