One example: I have had to deal with people going on and on with “but it’s not really you!” arguments about mind uploading on other forums on several separate occasions. Of course it’s annoying to press on about it entirely by yourself, so I don’t really bother and move on after a post or two. Here, I don’t have to repeat myself over and over very often, and the userbase is sympathetic, so keeping systemic obnoxiousness out of the environment is feasible enough that we should crush it with overwhelming force.
If it’s a troll, I’d guess either Eliezer being meta or maybe Mitchell Porter trying to make a point, but I’ve seen people this oblivious before.
If it’s a troll, I’d guess either Eliezer being meta or maybe Mitchell Porter trying to make a point, but I’ve seen people this oblivious before.
If they are making a point about necessity of downvoting, I must admit that it works perfectly.
But yes, contributors of this kind have high prior probability of appearing spontaneously on the internet. I have probably met an example or two in real life, too.
One example: I have had to deal with people going on and on with “but it’s not really you!” arguments about mind uploading on other forums on several separate occasions. Of course it’s annoying to press on about it entirely by yourself, so I don’t really bother and move on after a post or two. Here, I don’t have to repeat myself over and over very often, and the userbase is sympathetic, so keeping systemic obnoxiousness out of the environment is feasible enough that we should crush it with overwhelming force.
If it’s a troll, I’d guess either Eliezer being meta or maybe Mitchell Porter trying to make a point, but I’ve seen people this oblivious before.
If they are making a point about necessity of downvoting, I must admit that it works perfectly.
But yes, contributors of this kind have high prior probability of appearing spontaneously on the internet. I have probably met an example or two in real life, too.