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That N negative reactions about issue S exist only means that issue S is sufficiently popular.
Not if the polling is of folk in a position to have had contact with S, or is representative.
Sure, but XiXiDu's quotes bear no such framing.
I don't like to, but if necessary I can provide the indentity of the people who stated the above. They all directly work to reduce x-risks. I won't do so in public however.
Identity of these people is not the issue. The percentage of people in given category that have negative reactions for given reason, negative reactions for other reason, and positive reactions would be useful, but not a bunch of filtered (in unknown way) soldier-arguments.
I know. I however just wanted to highlight that there are negative reactions, including not so negative critique. If you look further, you'll probably find more. I haven't saved all I saw over the years, I just wanted to show that it's not like nobody has a problem with EY. And in all ocassion I actually defended him by the way.
The context is also difficult to provide as some of it is from private e-Mails. Although the first one is from here and after thinking about it I can also provide the name since he was anyway telling this Michael Anissimov. It is from Sean Hays:
You have a 'nasty things people say about Eliezer' quotes file?
The last one was from David Pearce.