With the rate of posts being that far up, there may have been a lot of posts that were totally overlooked, especially those that started at 1 or 2 karma, since they disappeared from the frontpage very quickly. It may be a good time to look a bit through the All Posts page (which I assume most people don't).
(That could be true even if some people upvoted more during this week rather than less. Maybe the posts that went above 20 or even 10 karma had an advantage, but I doubt the 1-2 karma posts did.)
I gotta say, having the power to just gift someone 2$-21$ with the click of a button, at no cost to myself, was pretty neat :-)
I'd suggest a community norm of "if you think your post(s) got overlooked because of GHW, feel free to resubmit slowly over the next ~month". (Where I'm not sure what resubmitting looks like exactly - if you move to drafts and then publish again, does that bring to the top of the front page while preserving comments?) I'd likely do this with one of my posts but not the other.
Yeah I felt like maybe my post about my metaethics/anti-realism sequence got overlooked. I saw that by the time it was promoted to frontpage, it was no longer directly visible because of new posts or high-karma older posts taking up the frontpage space. I don't care about the karma but I was hoping to get some more comments on the sequence from Lesswrongers. I never crossposted any of the 9 sequence posts because that would be cluttering up people's attention, so this is the only time Lesswrong hears about this pretty big amount of content that I put together.
Yeah, if your post was on frontpage for less than an hour I think it's fine to draft it and re-publish a week or two later. Site isn't quite used to having this much content.
I published an article on induction https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7x4eGxXL5DMwRwzDQ/commensurable-scientific-paradigms-or-computable-induction of decent length/complexity that send to have gotten no visibility at all, which I found very discouraging for my desire to ever do so again. I could only find it by checking my user profile!
I think it's good to experiment, but I actually found the experience of being on the site over the last week pretty unpleasant, and I've definitely spent much less time here. I initially went through some old ideas I had and tried posting one, but ended up just avoiding LessWrong until the end of the week.
I'm not totally sure right now why I felt this way. Something-like I'm very sensitive to feeling like my normal motivation system is being hijacked? I spent all of my time thinking about the best way to act differently given GHW, rather than just reading the content and enjoying it. This was pretty uncomfortable for me.
I am under the minimum threshold for actual payout. I propose with similarly situated users having collectively 25 tokens to our names draw lots to name one user that we argue and champion to actually receive $25 (with probabilities proportional to how much each user entering the pact personally has).
What do I have to do if I want to donate my GHT to the LW team?
PS. Now that GHT is no longer displayed: Where can one see how many a person got?
Things I'd be interested to learn in the retrospective:
One user on the leaderboard said to me it would make their life easier if the payment for this came after tax day on April 18th
Pretty curious why this would be; can't think of any tax reason.
Conjecture:
2: I don't see why it the balance would matter?
3: It's pretty uncommon to have your quarters roll over on the 18th. April 1st would be typical. Additionally, if they do use the 18th to define their quarter, it would be a bit surprising for them to refer to that as tax day, since that isn't usually the 18th.
Brief update: most of the payments have gone out, and a few of the bigger ones still to do. I'm slow on this because I am on vacation and was ill for a while. My guess is this will all be wrapped up within 7 days.
I suggest sending a (LW and/or email) notification which points to this post to every user on LW that's eligible for a payout, i.e. everyone who got >=25 Good Heart Tokens. (Or just to those who don't yet have any payment details submitted.) Not everyone sees admin posts like this one.
I found myself pretty motivated to reach the leaderboard, but once I reached the leaderboard, I was fine with letting myself slide off it so that I wouldn't be distracted by it.
This post - General Thoughts on Less Wrong - had been in my drafts, but I forgot to hit publish (since the situation had changed, I had to spend a bit of time rewriting it).
Overall, Goodhart's were harder to mine than I thought, but I've also been very busy with work, so didn't really have time to create any effort posts.
I think they were harder because people thought more seriously about their votes knowing that they are essentially giving the person money.
Good Heart Week has ended!
This week has seen a lot of content. I've had a great time reading posts and comments from new writers and returning writers, as well as polished-old-drafts from present writers :)
I'll write a retrospective in a week or two, but right now here's some information about what's happening and what to do next.
Let me know if you have any requests or questions at this time! I am also very interested in hearing your thoughts on and experiences from the whole week.