TheAncientGeek comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong

-13 Post author: aberglas 29 September 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 September 2014 11:08:38PM 0 points [-]

I don't understand why this post is so clearly down-voted.

It's vaguely anti MIRI?

Comment author: aberglas 30 September 2014 07:52:40AM *  1 point [-]

The post was not meant to be anti-anything. But it is a different point of view from that posted by several others in this space. I hope many of the down voters take the time to comment here.

One thing that I would say is that while it may not be the best post ever posted to less wrong, it is certainly not a troll. Yet one has to go back over 100 posts to find another article voted down so strongly!

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 October 2014 01:12:18PM 0 points [-]

The most upvoted post on LW is anti MIRI. You don't get down-voted on LW just because you are contrarian.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 01 October 2014 03:14:32PM 1 point [-]

Indeed not, pre existing status is important as well.

Comment author: RobbBB 30 November 2014 02:04:47AM 1 point [-]

Suppose Holden Karnofsky had written the exact post above ("Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis") and some unknown had written the substantive points from Holden's critique (minus the GiveWell-specific stuff). What karma values would you expect for those two posts?