Since when is it discouraged to point out minor criticism in a post?
Again, I wasn't speaking for all of Less Wrong. You'd have to ask the others why they downvoted you, but having committed the major faux pax of complaining about being downvoted, I don't think they'll be as receptive at this point.
I discourage anything that relates to pedantry, downvote whenever somebody is making a point, not because the point needs to be heard, but because they need to be heard. There's some subjectivity to it, of course. But it boils down to "Do I find that this comment adds, or detracts, from the meaningful conversation that can be had?" And I found yours to detract more than it added, for reasons already specified.
There's also more than a slight smell of identity politics to the way you're approaching this, particularly in the way you immediately threw yourself into the "Victim" role as soon as you perceived you weren't being treated with the gravity you expected. That might be an avenue for you to consider. Identity politics don't go over well here.
Cross-posted from my blog here.
One of the greatest successes of mankind over the last few centuries has been the enormous amount of wealth that has been created. Once upon a time virtually everyone lived in grinding poverty; now, thanks to the forces of science, capitalism and total factor productivity, we produce enough to support a much larger population at a much higher standard of living.
EAs being a highly intellectual lot, our preferred form of ritual celebration is charts. The ordained chart for celebrating this triumph of our people is the Declining Share of People Living in Extreme Poverty Chart.
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However, as a heretic, I think this chart is a mistake. What is so great about reducing the share? We could achieve that by killing all the poor people, but that would not be a good thing! Life is good, and poverty is not death; it is simply better for it to be rich.
As such, I think this is a much better chart. Here we show the world population. Those in extreme poverty are in purple – not red, for their existence is not bad. Those who the wheels of progress have lifted into wealth unbeknownst to our ancestors, on the other hand, are depicted in blue, rising triumphantly.
Long may their rise continue.