SilasBarta comments on But Somebody Would Have Noticed - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2010 06:56PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 09 May 2010 10:50:52AM *  1 point [-]

I did post a criticism of the idea behind the post, long before I made this one, which got to 6. So did several others, all of whom got to 10+. Significantly fewer comments are being voted up for defending the broad attack on the heuristic. This is inconsistent with the post's rating, and a problem with this post only.

I see no reason to justify having done anything different. Maybe if I didn't mention the name "Alicorn", perhaps, but I strongly suspect someone else would have done it for me if I didn't.

Any other suggestions? That I haven't already taken?

Comment author: Jack 09 May 2010 11:36:29AM 1 point [-]

I did post a criticism of the idea behind the post, long before I made this one, which got to 6. So did several others, all of whom got to 10+.

More frustrating than the high karma, to me, is that neither the author nor anyone else has attempt to rebut these criticisms.

Comment author: SilasBarta 09 May 2010 02:13:52PM 0 points [-]

True. I've just posted a more detailed criticism as a how-to.