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41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 December 2007 03:04AM

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Comment author: George_Weinberg2 12 December 2007 08:49:24PM 3 points [-]

Or at least invent a cultometer, so we can check our cultempature?

It's a bad sign if we develop identifiable cliques. Because of general attitudes it stands to reason agreements and disagreements won't be randomly distributed, but ideally we shouldn't "agree" or "disagree" with others because we agreed or disagreed with them in the past. It probably wouldn't be too hard to develop some sort of voting software that measured cliquishness if there's a demand for it.

Of course, the real disaster would be if people start saying things like "Eliezer is always right". Nobody is always right.