I’m being forced to address multiple audiences with different requirements by a nearly universal inclination to look for anything to justify criticism or downvoting—particularly since I’m rocking the boat or perceived as a newbie.
That hypothesis fails to account for all of the dataset: a lot of top-level posts don’t get downvoted to oblivion, even when they’re “rocking the boat” more than you are: see this and this.
I don’t perceive you as “rocking the boat”; I don’t understand enough of what you’re trying to say to tell whether I agree or not. I don’t think you’re more confused or less clear than the average lesswronger, however your top-levels posts on ethics and Friendly AI come off as more confused/confusing than the average top-level post on ethics and Friendly AI, most of which were written by Eliezer.
I don’t know if the perceived confusion comes from the fact that your own thinking is confused, that your thinking is clear but your writing is unclear, or that I myself am confused or biased in some way. There is a lot of writing that falls into that category (Foucault and Derrida come to mind), and I don’t consider it a worthwhile use of my time to try to figure it out, as there is also a large supply of clear writing available.
That hypothesis fails to account for all of the dataset: a lot of top-level posts don’t get downvoted to oblivion, even when they’re “rocking the boat” more than you are: see this and this.
I don’t perceive you as “rocking the boat”; I don’t understand enough of what you’re trying to say to tell whether I agree or not. I don’t think you’re more confused or less clear than the average lesswronger, however your top-levels posts on ethics and Friendly AI come off as more confused/confusing than the average top-level post on ethics and Friendly AI, most of which were written by Eliezer.
I don’t know if the perceived confusion comes from the fact that your own thinking is confused, that your thinking is clear but your writing is unclear, or that I myself am confused or biased in some way. There is a lot of writing that falls into that category (Foucault and Derrida come to mind), and I don’t consider it a worthwhile use of my time to try to figure it out, as there is also a large supply of clear writing available.