Stephen Bennett

Aug 25, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Steven Byrnes |martin Randall |Stephen Bennett |Adam Zerner

Yes it’s possible to be more specific than “good faith” / “bad faith” but that doesn’t mean those phrases aren’t communicating something substantive and useful, right? By the same token, every possible word and phrase and sentence could be elaborated into something more specific. I also agree that there are edge cases, but again, that’s a near-universal property of using language to communicate. Here’s my defense of good faith / bad faith.

Jun 23, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Adam Zerner |Gerald M. Monroe |Stephen Bennett

The LessWrong team recently began rolling out automatic rate limits. The general idea is if a user gets heavily downvoted, the site automatically restricts their posting and commenting privileges. (See Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism for some background on LessWrong's overall moderation philosophy)After thinking awhile about various side-effects (see previous discussion), I designed some rate limits based on the following user metadata:Total karma.