paper-machine comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 February 2013 09:07:49PM 0 points [-]

Or, for example, the most-upvoted post in LW's history.

It's been deleted now AFAIK, but this post was dismissed as an outlier due to Karnofsky's relative celebrity. Establishing an historical trend (which does exist, as far as I recall) would be more useful evidence.

Comment author: CarlShulman 06 February 2013 01:08:28AM *  3 points [-]

E.g. check out the anonymous multifoliaterose's numerous positive balance SI and specifically EY-critical posts, some of them rather harsh indeed in content, although mostly following usual conversational and politeness norms (with some striking exceptions):

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2l8/existential_risk_and_public_relations/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2lh/other_existential_risks/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2lr/the_importance_of_selfdoubt/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/2m5/transparency_and_accountability/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/3aa/friendly_ai_research_and_taskification/

Comment author: lukeprog 05 February 2013 10:12:27PM *  1 point [-]

No, not deleted. You can find it easily by visiting the top posts page.

More recent examples include this and this.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 February 2013 10:35:11PM 2 points [-]

I meant that the comment expressing the sentiment that Karnofsky is an outlier has been deleted, AFAIK. Of course the actual post hasn't been deleted, or else it couldn't be used an example at all.

Comment author: CarlShulman 06 February 2013 06:00:11AM 1 point [-]

Deleted posts are still visible on user pages.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 February 2013 01:14:02AM 1 point [-]

I meant that the comment expressing the sentiment that Karnofsky is an outlier has been deleted, AFAIK. Of course the actual post hasn't been deleted, or else it couldn't be used an example at all.

Really? That doesn't seem to be the kind of comment that it would be appropriate to delete. (Unless it was in a trollish-subthread or by a troll sockpuppet.)

Comment author: CarlShulman 06 February 2013 06:07:56AM 3 points [-]

It was by Dmytry, and Eliezer has been mass-deleting comments written by Dmytry and peterdjones, by user rather than by comment/thread. Huge swathes of my own comments from conversations with Dmytry have been deleted, to my chagrin.

Comment author: gwern 06 February 2013 04:21:18PM 2 points [-]

Ditto.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 February 2013 01:27:40AM 1 point [-]

It was, IIRC.