When this person goes to post the answer to the alignment problem to LessWrong, they will have low enough accumulated karma that the post will be poorly received.
Does the author having lower karma actually cause posts to be received more poorly? The author’s karma isn’t visible anywhere on the post, or even in the hover-tooltip by the author’s name. (One has to click through to the profile to find out.) Even if readers did know the author’s karma, would that really cause people to not just judge it by its content? I would be surprised.
Well, I’m more talking about the actual reputation one has in the alignment community, since that’s the thing that’s actually relevant to how a post is received. I have no idea what my reputation is like, but it would almost have to be “total unknown”.
Does the author having lower karma actually cause posts to be received more poorly? The author’s karma isn’t visible anywhere on the post, or even in the hover-tooltip by the author’s name. (One has to click through to the profile to find out.) Even if readers did know the author’s karma, would that really cause people to not just judge it by its content? I would be surprised.
Well, I’m more talking about the actual reputation one has in the alignment community, since that’s the thing that’s actually relevant to how a post is received. I have no idea what my reputation is like, but it would almost have to be “total unknown”.