So the real question is: “How will one’s credibility be affected in the environment where the idea is presented?” which most likely depends on one’s current credibility.
As of now, I don’t have much karma so my risk of putting out poor ideas is more detrimental to this screen name. Eliezer could probably sneak in an entire subtly ludicrous paragraph that might go unnoticed for a while.
He has a history in reader’s minds as well as the karma metric to make people ignore that flash in the back of their minds that something was off. They are more likely to think it was their own abberant thinking or that they had a flawed interpretation of a non-ludicrous idea he was trying to convey.
So it guess it just depends on how solid you think your idea and reputation are in making the decision on when to release an idea to a particular audience.
So the real question is: “How will one’s credibility be affected in the environment where the idea is presented?” which most likely depends on one’s current credibility.
As of now, I don’t have much karma so my risk of putting out poor ideas is more detrimental to this screen name. Eliezer could probably sneak in an entire subtly ludicrous paragraph that might go unnoticed for a while.
He has a history in reader’s minds as well as the karma metric to make people ignore that flash in the back of their minds that something was off. They are more likely to think it was their own abberant thinking or that they had a flawed interpretation of a non-ludicrous idea he was trying to convey.
So it guess it just depends on how solid you think your idea and reputation are in making the decision on when to release an idea to a particular audience.