You’re posting this here is strange, because the incident you’re referring to happened elsewhere in the comments section, and I was only indirectly involved with it. But if I had to guess why you were implicitly called an “idiot”, it’d be down to two big, related things.
Firstly, you made a few errors of grammar and punctuation. This is likely due in part to hasty or stressed writing, but also somewhat suggests you don’t know the correct grammar and punctuation, which is a huge factor people take into account when judging intelligence and intellectual ability. Secondly, your writing style is distinctly schizophrenic, with overt religious influences. Both schizophrenia and religiosity are thought to correlate strongly with lack of intellectual ability on LessWrong.
Those two aspects of your writing combined—punctuation/grammar and schizotypality/religiosity—mean the vast majority of LessWrong folk won’t even bother to try to understand what you say, and will thus consign you to the “idiot” bin. Unfortunately, I think it’d be very difficult for you to learn the writing style and conceptual emphases that are sought on LessWrong.
Thus I think you’ll ultimately want to refrain from commenting here. Your ideas are interesting, but your background, perspective, and values are too different to spark really useful interactions. Even I am often disliked on LessWrong and I am very careful to speak their language most of the time. I think you’d fare much worse, because you lack the experience.
You’re posting this here is strange, because the incident you’re referring to happened elsewhere in the comments section, and I was only indirectly involved with it. But if I had to guess why you were implicitly called an “idiot”, it’d be down to two big, related things.
Firstly, you made a few errors of grammar and punctuation. This is likely due in part to hasty or stressed writing, but also somewhat suggests you don’t know the correct grammar and punctuation, which is a huge factor people take into account when judging intelligence and intellectual ability. Secondly, your writing style is distinctly schizophrenic, with overt religious influences. Both schizophrenia and religiosity are thought to correlate strongly with lack of intellectual ability on LessWrong.
Those two aspects of your writing combined—punctuation/grammar and schizotypality/religiosity—mean the vast majority of LessWrong folk won’t even bother to try to understand what you say, and will thus consign you to the “idiot” bin. Unfortunately, I think it’d be very difficult for you to learn the writing style and conceptual emphases that are sought on LessWrong.
Thus I think you’ll ultimately want to refrain from commenting here. Your ideas are interesting, but your background, perspective, and values are too different to spark really useful interactions. Even I am often disliked on LessWrong and I am very careful to speak their language most of the time. I think you’d fare much worse, because you lack the experience.