I don’t think it’s so much ‘caring a lot about the karma system’ per se, so much as the more general case of ‘caring about the approval and/or disapproval of one’s peers’. The former is fairly abstract, but the latter is a fairly deep ancestral motivation.
Like I said before, it’s clearly not much in the way of suppression. That said, given that, barring rare incidents of actual moderation, it is the only ‘suppression’ that occurs here, and since there is a view among various circles that there there is, in fact, suppression of dissent, and since people on the site frequently wonder why there are not more dissenting viewpoints here, and look for ways to find more… it is important to look at the issue in great depth, since it’s clearly an issue which is more significant than it seems on the surface.
[P]eople on the site frequently wonder why there are not more dissenting viewpoints here, and look for ways to find more… it is important to look at the issue in great depth, since it’s clearly an issue which is more significant than it seems on the surface.
Exactly right. But a group that claims to be dedicated to rationality loses all credibility when participants not only abstain from considering this question but adamantly resist it. The only upvote you received for your post—which makes this vital point—is mine.
This thread examines HoldenKarnofsky’s charge that SIAI isn’t exemplarily rational. As part of that examination, the broader LW environment on which it relies is germane. That much has been granted by most posters. But when the conversation reaches the touchstone of how the community expresses its approval and disapproval, the comments are declared illegitimate and downvoted (or if the comments are polite and hyper-correct, at least not upvoted).
The group harbors taboos. The following subjects are subject to them: the very possibility of nonevolved AI; karma and the group’s own process generally (an indespensable discussion ); and politics. (I’ve already posted a cite showing how the proscription on politics works, using an example the editors’ unwillingness to promote the post despite receiving almost 800 comments).
These defects in the rational process of LW help sustain Kardofsky’s argument that SIAI is not to be recommended based on the exemplary rationality of its staff and leadership. They are also the leadership of LW, and they have failed by refusing to lead the forum toward understanding the biases in its own process. They have fostered bias by creating the taboo on politics, as though you can rationally understand the world while dogmatically refusing even to consider a big part of it—because it “kills” your mind.
P.S. Thank you for the upvotes where you perceived bias.
I don’t think it’s so much ‘caring a lot about the karma system’ per se, so much as the more general case of ‘caring about the approval and/or disapproval of one’s peers’. The former is fairly abstract, but the latter is a fairly deep ancestral motivation.
Like I said before, it’s clearly not much in the way of suppression. That said, given that, barring rare incidents of actual moderation, it is the only ‘suppression’ that occurs here, and since there is a view among various circles that there there is, in fact, suppression of dissent, and since people on the site frequently wonder why there are not more dissenting viewpoints here, and look for ways to find more… it is important to look at the issue in great depth, since it’s clearly an issue which is more significant than it seems on the surface.
Exactly right. But a group that claims to be dedicated to rationality loses all credibility when participants not only abstain from considering this question but adamantly resist it. The only upvote you received for your post—which makes this vital point—is mine.
This thread examines HoldenKarnofsky’s charge that SIAI isn’t exemplarily rational. As part of that examination, the broader LW environment on which it relies is germane. That much has been granted by most posters. But when the conversation reaches the touchstone of how the community expresses its approval and disapproval, the comments are declared illegitimate and downvoted (or if the comments are polite and hyper-correct, at least not upvoted).
The group harbors taboos. The following subjects are subject to them: the very possibility of nonevolved AI; karma and the group’s own process generally (an indespensable discussion ); and politics. (I’ve already posted a cite showing how the proscription on politics works, using an example the editors’ unwillingness to promote the post despite receiving almost 800 comments).
These defects in the rational process of LW help sustain Kardofsky’s argument that SIAI is not to be recommended based on the exemplary rationality of its staff and leadership. They are also the leadership of LW, and they have failed by refusing to lead the forum toward understanding the biases in its own process. They have fostered bias by creating the taboo on politics, as though you can rationally understand the world while dogmatically refusing even to consider a big part of it—because it “kills” your mind.
P.S. Thank you for the upvotes where you perceived bias.