Eliezer is awesomecool! He's one of my heroes on Facebook! Yayyyyyyyyyy Eliezer! People like him and say nice things about him! May he be blessed with unalloyed yet deserved positive affect!
SIAI is totally awesome too! Good job making SIAI, Eliezer! Good luck with your proof proof proofs! May ye never forget to go meta, nor crumble in uncertainty, but especially may ye not forget to go meta! Yay Eliezer! 100,000 karma means... you are far from becoming Enlightened, but at least your rate of karma generation has gone down of late! Go you!
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.