Most of Eliezer's posts were originally made on Overcoming Bias, which has no karma system. They were ported to LW at its inception, so all upvotes occurred well after their writing. Certainly they scored a small fraction of what they would have, had they been written fresh on the site!
I also try not to make heros out of other mammals, but Eliezer is indeed 100,000 kinds of awesome!
Yeah. Whenever I go back to one of those posts originally on Less Wrong and I like it, I always make sure to upvote it.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has passed an arbitrary milestone: 100,000 karma points on Less Wrong. Allow me just a moment to celebrate this like we celebrate other arbitrary milestones, like birthdays.
I think that Eliezer's karma score vastly under-rates his relative contribution to this site. For example, his score is only about 13x my own score, but I think it's obvious he has contributed far more than 13x as much value to this community as I have.
This is probably due to the fact that good posts today get far more upvotes than earlier good posts, when I suspect the community was smaller. For example, my rather simple and insignificant post Secure Your Beliefs received 34 upvotes, which is more than almost any of Eliezer's epic and brilliant posts of the past have received, for example Terminal Values and Instrumental Values.
So at this arbitrary milestone, I'd just like to say a quick word to Eliezer:
Thanks.
You've done a lot.
Okay, that's all! I hope this doesn't come across as "sucking up to the Dear Leader," but instead as the sincere appreciation it is. There is a good reason I list Eliezer as one of my heroes-even-though-we-shouldn't-have-'heroes' over here.