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Then you should have written your own version of it. Bad posts that get upvoted just annoy me on a visceral level and make me think that explaining things is hopeless, if LWers still think that bad posts deserve upvotes. People like XiXiDu are ones I've learned to classify as noisemakers who suck up lots of attention but who never actually change their minds enough to start pitching in, no matter how much you argue with them. My perceptual system claims to be able to classify pretty quickly whether someone is really trying or not, and I have no concrete reason to doubt it.
I guess next time I'll try to remember not to reply at all.
Everyone else, please stop upvoting posts that aren't good. If you're interested in the topic, write your own version of the question.
It has seemed to me for a while that a number of people will upvote any post that goes against the LW 'consensus' position on cryonics/Singularity/Friendliness, so long as it's not laughably badly written.
I don't think anything Eliezer can say will change that trend, for obvious reasons.
However, most of us could do better in downvoting badly argued or fatally flawed posts. It amazes me that many of the worst posts here won't drop below 0 for any stated amount of time, and even then not very far. Docking someone's karma isn't going to kill them, folks. Do everyone a favor and use those downvotes.
My post is neither badly argued nor fatally flawed as I've mainly been asking questions and not making arguments. But if you think otherwise, why don't you argue where I am fatally flawed?
My post has not been written to speak out against any 'consensus', I agree with the primary conclusions but am skeptic about further chains of reasoning based on those conclusions as I don't perceive them to be based on firm ground but merely be what follows from previous evidence.
And yes, I'm a lazy bum. I've not thought about the OP for more than 10 minutes. It's actually copy and paste work from previous comments. Hell, what have you expected? A dissertation? Nobody else was asking those questions, someone had to.