I’ve created a rebuttal to komponisto’s misleading Amanda Knox post, but don’t have enough karma to create my own top-level post. For now, I’ve just put it here:
I don’t understand how this was worked around. It looks like (rolf’s karma + karma lost by this being posted at the top level) would still have been insufficient.
The karma limit was serving the purpose for which it was intended. If, for some reason, an exception was granted I would like to see this announced.
money is the unit of caring; karma is just a number
Seriously, I’ve had some interesting discussions with Rolf in the past elsewhere. I’m not sure why he doesn’t participate much here, and why he chose this topic to put his efforts into. But maybe we can cut him some slack?
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.
I had thought he was here solely to discuss this one thing. If he’s interested in the things we’re interested in in general as evinced powerfully by those donations then yes, I’ll increase the slack I cut. Thanks.
BTW I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone at SIAI has used admin privs to allow Rolf to make a top-level post he wouldn’t otherwise have been able to make.
I don’t understand how this was worked around. It looks like (rolf’s karma + karma lost by this being posted at the top level) would still have been insufficient.
The karma limit was serving the purpose for which it was intended. If, for some reason, an exception was granted I would like to see this announced.
Rolf is a major SIAI donor/supporter, so draw your own conclusion there.
Here’s a bunch of mine, for fun:
money > karma
control the physical layer
beware the other kind of status
money is the unit of caring; karma is just a number
Seriously, I’ve had some interesting discussions with Rolf in the past elsewhere. I’m not sure why he doesn’t participate much here, and why he chose this topic to put his efforts into. But maybe we can cut him some slack?
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?
I had thought he was here solely to discuss this one thing. If he’s interested in the things we’re interested in in general as evinced powerfully by those donations then yes, I’ll increase the slack I cut. Thanks.
BTW I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone at SIAI has used admin privs to allow Rolf to make a top-level post he wouldn’t otherwise have been able to make.