Rolf isn’t the one we’d be cutting slack to here. It is the moderator’s decision to circumvent the karma system to post a political rant that warrants scrutiny.
Eliezer has been quite adamant that this is not the blog of the SIAI. In that context and elsewhere the moderation process has been held to high standards of consistency and transparency. At least acknowledging that special allowances were made (and who made them) would be nice.
I expect the moderator has already learned their lesson. Posting Rolf’s rant seems to have allowed him to embarrass himself and can only be expected to have the opposite effect to the one intended. The ~50 karma limit gives people a chance to read posts like this and better calibrate his posting to the social environment before he puts his foot in his mouth.
PS: Can anyone remember what the post was called in which Eliezer describes a scenario about deducing the bias of a coin? A motivated speaker gives only a subset of a stream of coin tosses… I couldn’t remember the title.
Rolf isn’t the one we’d be cutting slack to here. It is the moderator’s decision to circumvent the karma system to post a political rant that warrants scrutiny.
Eliezer has been quite adamant that this is not the blog of the SIAI. In that context and elsewhere the moderation process has been held to high standards of consistency and transparency. At least acknowledging that special allowances were made (and who made them) would be nice.
I expect the moderator has already learned their lesson. Posting Rolf’s rant seems to have allowed him to embarrass himself and can only be expected to have the opposite effect to the one intended. The ~50 karma limit gives people a chance to read posts like this and better calibrate his posting to the social environment before he puts his foot in his mouth.
PS: Can anyone remember what the post was called in which Eliezer describes a scenario about deducing the bias of a coin? A motivated speaker gives only a subset of a stream of coin tosses… I couldn’t remember the title.
What evidence filtered evidence?