The post was not meant to be anti-anything. But it is a different point of view from that posted by several others in this space. I hope many of the down voters take the time to comment here.
One thing that I would say is that while it may not be the best post ever posted to less wrong, it is certainly not a troll. Yet one has to go back over 100 posts to find another article voted down so strongly!
Suppose Holden Karnofsky had written the exact post above (“Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis”) and some unknown had written the substantive points from Holden’s critique (minus the GiveWell-specific stuff). What karma values would you expect for those two posts?
It’s vaguely anti MIRI?
The post was not meant to be anti-anything. But it is a different point of view from that posted by several others in this space. I hope many of the down voters take the time to comment here.
One thing that I would say is that while it may not be the best post ever posted to less wrong, it is certainly not a troll. Yet one has to go back over 100 posts to find another article voted down so strongly!
The most upvoted post on LW is anti MIRI. You don’t get down-voted on LW just because you are contrarian.
Indeed not, pre existing status is important as well.
Suppose Holden Karnofsky had written the exact post above (“Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis”) and some unknown had written the substantive points from Holden’s critique (minus the GiveWell-specific stuff). What karma values would you expect for those two posts?