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Thomas comments on [LINK] Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is now on slashdot - Less Wrong
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The averaged opinion on Slashdot is useless. The mainstream Slashdot view is unimportant and boring.
That's not helpful at mutliple levels. First, it is extremely easy to fall into a death spiral when one quickly labels those who disagree with you to be "unimportant and boring". Second, given the techie orientation of Slashdot, it is exactly the sort of people that one concerned about these sorts of things should be trying to convince. So at minimum, one should read what they have to say, so one knows what to expect and how to respond in a way that explains the concerns.
Yeah, the comments on there were...not very well thought out. My intuition is that a lot of people went "Hey, this looks insane", then went back and came up with a justification other than "absurdity heuristic", and then didn't bother checking that the reason they came up with really made any sense.
Thus it being our opportunity to add comments to the thread on /. that are well thought out, and thereby improve how the subject is perceived by a not insignificant fraction of sort of people who might be easily persuaded to be interested in this topic.