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142 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 January 2011 12:15AM

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Comment author: Perplexed 07 January 2011 06:34:53PM *  5 points [-]

I'm really surprised this article has such a high rating

My guess at the reason for the high rating would be:
* Some people like postings on instrumental rationality, and upvote because they would like to see more of them.
* Some people like Eliezer to be active here, and they upvote to signal that they want him to be more active.
* There is little overlap.
* The people who would rather that Eliezer spend his time on the TDT paper, the rationality book, a clarification of CEV, and HPMoR ..., well, those people don't downvote to signal their preferences.