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It’s the very fallacy Eliezer argues against where people know about clever arguers and use this fact against everyone else.
Which may very well be an adaptive fallacy that keeps you harder to manipulate by smarter people. It is possible that in the ancestral environment:
Cost of smart people manipulating you > Cost of being somewhat wrong in a hard to spot way
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2 votes
Overall karma indicates overall quality.
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Agreement karma indicates agreement, separate from overall quality.
Which may very well be an adaptive fallacy that keeps you harder to manipulate by smarter people. It is possible that in the ancestral environment:
Cost of smart people manipulating you > Cost of being somewhat wrong in a hard to spot way