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I think about this stuff quit a lot and generally seek out strong counterarguments. I dislike people down voting a comment I'm certain stands up to the level of discourse here while not exposing their own reasoning on the matter.
If you think I don't have a good idea about the level of discourse here, well then people should have been down voting me much more aggressively over the past few years I've spent in this community, people seem to have generally liked my contributions.
My comment complaining over this might was in hindsight perhaps inappropriate and I've retracted it, however the reason I'm not as phased as I once was by down votes is because I think the quality of the LessWrong community is slowly degrading and only aggressive counter measures can stop it.
SIAI needed to improve as an organization, so they brought in people who they thought could run a successful non-profit. What they got was a better non-profit plus the whole accompanying spectrum of philanthropy status divas, professional beggars and related hangers-on.
Most of the original thinkers have left, replaced by those who believe in thinking, but only for fashionable thoughts.
Okay, so would you kindly point to some awful, worthless posts/comments by those awful, worthless people? And explain what makes them so awful and worthless? So that the right-thinking users can learn to avoid them?
Or, if you don't have anything specific in mind, would you at least cease insulting the community?
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