Kawoomba comments on Optimal rudeness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 13 April 2013 06:09:54PM *  2 points [-]

I prefer to think of karma points on this board as measuring a person's covariance with the group opinion.

Is that why the top voted post in Main is one by an outspoken critic? If the above were true, if this forum didn't also reward group-contrarian ideas as long as they were well presented, how could LW purport to be about rationality? It's quite the devastating statement that karma is based mostly on "agrees/disagrees with me"/tribal lines.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 April 2013 08:01:17PM *  0 points [-]

If the above were true, if this forum didn't also reward group-contrarian ideas as long as they were well presented, how could LW purport to be about rationality?

Is that intended to be an argument? Notice that it is not.

I think the top-voted post you're referring to (link does not work) is by the GiveWell evaluator. Besides writing a good post, he was an outsider with high status paying attention to LW, and Eliezer and everyone supporting SIAI desperately wanted to impress him and make him feel like he was being taken seriously. Not an admittable datapoint.

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