That’s possible, but I find it more likely that we have a silent majority of people who are on the periphery of the community and are uncomfortable with a lot of the singularitarian memes. I think that a lot of internet communities with voting have a lot of people who vote but don’t comment or comment only occasionally, so you’d expect that voting would reflect more peripheral members more strongly than the discussion would.
That’s possible, but I find it more likely that we have a silent majority of people who are on the periphery of the community and are uncomfortable with a lot of the singularitarian memes. I think that a lot of internet communities with voting have a lot of people who vote but don’t comment or comment only occasionally, so you’d expect that voting would reflect more peripheral members more strongly than the discussion would.
The singularity have diverse connotations; is good to specify what memes you’re thinking.
I mean the ones that most prominent LWers endorse.