Yes, it wasn’t obvious to me. Partly because I expect common hostility to be mislabelled as trolling, and partly because even just the obvious hostility was enough that it didn’t seem worth paying that much attention to—it looked like a classic example of politics as the mind killer. The thing about freezing and cryogenics though—it seems like someone from lesswrong would already know the counter argument, and 911truther did seem familiar with lesswrong. I have updated towards the troll possibility.
ETA: I hadn’t read the genetic algorithm comment until now, so there’s another example of me missing evidence of trolling. The thing is, paying more attention doesn’t seem like a good idea. I am glad I read your comment to point me a specific example rather than their whole comment history.
Yes, it wasn’t obvious to me. Partly because I expect common hostility to be mislabelled as trolling, and partly because even just the obvious hostility was enough that it didn’t seem worth paying that much attention to—it looked like a classic example of politics as the mind killer. The thing about freezing and cryogenics though—it seems like someone from lesswrong would already know the counter argument, and 911truther did seem familiar with lesswrong. I have updated towards the troll possibility.
ETA: I hadn’t read the genetic algorithm comment until now, so there’s another example of me missing evidence of trolling. The thing is, paying more attention doesn’t seem like a good idea. I am glad I read your comment to point me a specific example rather than their whole comment history.
Oops I was getting mixed up with another user who also kept mentioning not having enough karma to downvote, and being rate-limited in commenting.