If I had the option to vote up multiple times, I would have voted up a post like gwern's about a prominent LWer more times than I would have this post of gwern's.
I now want to interact with gwern more but want people I know who are less accepting of abrasive social norm violations to interact with gwern less. I personally would be elated if my friends pulled this kind of thing on me with some (but not too much) regularity.
Edit: fivelier brings up a good point. My first thought was "I wish it was normal to expect someone might be performing this kind of test!", then "Really? Would I really be happy about that?" then "well, if my friends did it, yes, definitely". But I only wrote the final statement.
If I had the option to vote up multiple times, I would have voted up a post like gwern's about a prominent LWer more times than I would have this post of gwern's.
I would love to test LWers more, but it's hard to find any good approaches. Suppose I wanted to test Eliezer - what field of new data exactly would I supply? If I had a time-machine, I could supply observations of the future's progress on AI and reverse them, but unfortunately I do not have one.
I suppose I could supply critical information on cryonics - claim there were new defrostings?, but when I've supplied good information on cryonics in the past, my posts and comments get upvoted!
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