You got downvotes because you made a blackmail thread against the community. Even if it’s no credible threat, treating it as an hostile act and downvoting it is still right for game theoretic reasons.
So in your read of the downvotes, the most common interpretation of the OP was ‘you community members should pay me, an outsider, to be virtuous, or else’ rather than ‘hi fellow rationalists, does anyone know of resources that would allow me to profit from the practice of our shared values’?
You got downvotes because you made a blackmail thread against the community. Even if it’s no credible threat, treating it as an hostile act and downvoting it is still right for game theoretic reasons.
So in your read of the downvotes, the most common interpretation of the OP was ‘you community members should pay me, an outsider, to be virtuous, or else’ rather than ‘hi fellow rationalists, does anyone know of resources that would allow me to profit from the practice of our shared values’?