paper-machine comments on The 5-Second Level - Less Wrong

111 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 May 2011 04:51AM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 08 May 2011 05:47:16PM 2 points [-]

Are there lots of other topics you feel this way about?

If it's just this topic, that doesn't seem like a very big deal to me. I have no doubt LW has at least a few topics where people have an unproductive moralizing response. However, if such toxicity uncommon and doesn't affect important topics then I don't think it's a very big deal (though certainly worth avoiding).

Comment author: [deleted] 08 May 2011 06:14:48PM 4 points [-]

It was made pretty clear in the other thread that the evidence linked was extremely weak.

Maybe that doesn't justify -15, but a priori I'd downvote it.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 May 2011 06:20:19PM 1 point [-]

but a priori I'd downvote it.

ceteris paribus?

Comment author: [deleted] 08 May 2011 07:25:30PM 2 points [-]

If I didn't already know it'd been downvoted into the asthenosphere, I would have downvoted it. But as it stands now, there's no reason for me to downvote it, because it's already been downvoted enough.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 May 2011 10:16:42PM 1 point [-]

If I didn't already know it'd been downvoted into the asthenosphere, I would have downvoted it. But as it stands now, there's no reason for me to downvote it, because it's already been downvoted enough.

I understood the message. But the latin phase was off. Ceteris paribus is the one that would fit.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 May 2011 11:54:56PM 1 point [-]

Fair enough.