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The reason i love Elizier is how many people he must have attracted this art of rationality, and that without him and this site i wouldn't even know where to begin or where to look, and how he is one of surprisingly few people able to convey the information in such tasty little bits. He may not be the smartest in his field, and may 'just' be passing on things he learned from others, but his work is super valuable, for he does what the others don't. Also, Methods of Rationality happens to be on my top 3 list of Greatest Pieces of Writing IMO, so that adds a bit. I just have to separate and clear the lines between the two kinds of reverence, which can be surprisingly difficult if you don't pay attention to it which this post reminded me of, so thanks
Do you love him enough to spell his name right..?
I might have found your comment witty if you hadn't also downvoted. Don't be a jerk.
(My apologies if it wasn't your downvote. Obviously I'm pretty confident, though)
Sigh. I very rarely downvote any comments in the subthreads I participate in. I did not vote, up or down, on any comment in this subthread.
Want to recalibrate your confidence? :-P
Gladly. In retrospect, my comment was obnoxious even if it had been right. In the future I'll try to realize this without being wrong first. edit: Out of curiousity, why do you usually not vote in threads you're participating in?
If I am already talking to people, I can explain my likes and dislikes in words -- without using the crude tool of votes. For me comments and votes are two alternate ways of expressing my attitude, it is rare that I want to use both.
Besides, it feels more "proper", in the vaguely ethical way, to not up- or down-vote people with whom I am conversing. Not that I think it should be a universal rule, that's just a quirk of mine.
I have no qualms against upvoting people that I'm responding to or who have responded to me, but I have a much higher threshold for downvoting responses to my comments and posts, both to try to compensate for the human tendency to get defensive and to increase the probability the conversation is pleasant.
Agreed with all of this, but the last bit makes me curious... does downvoting someone who is involved in an exchange with a third party decrease the probability that the conversation is pleasant for the two of them?
Well being downvoted, especially when it puts one in the negatives, stirs up bad feelings which might make someone less likely to behave pleasantly in a conversation.
I would like it if you didn't linger so much on a mere spelling mistake. I had no muscle memory for how to spell this entirely foreign name. Eliezer Yudkowski; i hope you are satisfied, for thy name is surely glorious and worthy of praise.
I've also first discovered the mail-notification system, hence why it took me so long to respond
I Googled "Elizier Yudkowsky" and the first suggestion was an OKCupid profile. Talk about loving him!