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?
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?