And if you downvote my comment, please explain why. I am just trying to clarify my position and I do not understand why that merits a downvote.
Welcome to lesswrong. Calling this part of the site “discussion” is some sort of euphemism if you measure acceptability by lack of downvotes. You’ll get some people explaining why they prefer a board that doesn’t include discussions from people who aren’t even aware yet what the kool-aid contains, which is nice of them.
In simpler terms, there are a broad range of hypotheses which will receive a lot of downvotes. You might think, as I did, that 1) if you hold some of these ideas, a section of the website called “discussion” would be a good place to “discuss” these things. 2) You might also think that a significant negative votes are meant to flag posts that “shouldn’t” be here. In my opinion, someone who wishes to discuss things as I do, and it seemed from this post as you do, cannot continue to believe both 1) and 2).
In summary, you can expect significant downvotes if you post positively about any ideas from a rather long but unpublished list of ideas. If you wish to discuss these ideas, you can do it here but you will be downvoted. If you wish to discuss these ideas without being downvoted, you MIGHT be able to do it here, but it will be like discussing whether Jesus exists with a Jesuit priest: you must pay lip service respect to the ideas you are questioning constantly, and can still expect to be told that until you have read the bible and St. Thomas you are only polluting the discussion and (presumably) endangering the souls of other readers with your basilisky ideas.
Google basilisk if you don’t already know what it is.
Welcome to lesswrong. Calling this part of the site “discussion” is some sort of euphemism if you measure acceptability by lack of downvotes. You’ll get some people explaining why they prefer a board that doesn’t include discussions from people who aren’t even aware yet what the kool-aid contains, which is nice of them.
Sorry, could you rephrase that? I don’t understand what you’re saying.
In simpler terms, there are a broad range of hypotheses which will receive a lot of downvotes. You might think, as I did, that 1) if you hold some of these ideas, a section of the website called “discussion” would be a good place to “discuss” these things. 2) You might also think that a significant negative votes are meant to flag posts that “shouldn’t” be here. In my opinion, someone who wishes to discuss things as I do, and it seemed from this post as you do, cannot continue to believe both 1) and 2).
In summary, you can expect significant downvotes if you post positively about any ideas from a rather long but unpublished list of ideas. If you wish to discuss these ideas, you can do it here but you will be downvoted. If you wish to discuss these ideas without being downvoted, you MIGHT be able to do it here, but it will be like discussing whether Jesus exists with a Jesuit priest: you must pay lip service respect to the ideas you are questioning constantly, and can still expect to be told that until you have read the bible and St. Thomas you are only polluting the discussion and (presumably) endangering the souls of other readers with your basilisky ideas.
Google basilisk if you don’t already know what it is.