Thus I've been critical of cryonics, of AI fooming,
I'm not sure how mainstream these positions actually are. While these positions are certainly held by several high status members of the community, I'm pretty sure a majority of posters don't believe in AI fooming and wouldn't be surprised if a significant fraction are critical of cryonics.
My impression is that critiques of lesswrong mainstream positions and arguments for contrary positions are received well and achieve high karma scores when they are of very high quality. Similarly posts and comments that take lesswrong mainstream positions will still be voted down if they are of very low quality. But in between there seems to be a gulf: Moderately low quality mainstream comments will stay at 0 to -1 karma while contra-mainstream comments of (apparently) similar quality score solidly negative karma, moderately high quality mainstream comments achieve good positive karma while similar quality contra-mainstream comments stay at 0 to 2.
Do you share my impression? And if this is the case, should we try to do something about it?