I am highly confused about the parent having been voted down, to the point where I am in a state of genuine curiosity about what went through the voter's mind as he or she saw it.

Eliezer asked whether a thousand different animals cooperating could have the power of a human. I answered:

Yes, if there were a sufficiently powerful optimization process controlling the form of their cooperation

And then someone came along, read this, and thought....what? Was it:

• "No, you idiot, obviously no optimization process could be that powerful." ?

• "There you go: 'sufficiently powerful optimization process' is equivalent to 'magic happens'. That's so obvious that I'm not going to waste my time pointing it out; instead, I'm just going to lower your status with a downvote." ?

• "Clearly you didn't understand what Eliezer was asking. You're in over your head, and shouldn't be discussing this topic." ?

• Something else?