Maybe I’m completely mistaken by believing that this sort of attitude is common in the PU community?
No you are not mistaken, but there are good, empirical reasons for this attitude.
So, this comment got downvoted, why? I provided a piece of valuable empirical data which constrains our model of reality to the group mind, and then I got punished for doing so. Maybe I should stop optimizing my comments for informativeness, and start trying to just optimize for whatever people vote up?
No you are not mistaken, but there are good, empirical reasons for this attitude.
I don’t think so. The behavior of “if at first you don’t succeed” has obvious empirical backing, but there is more than one attitude that can generate that same behavior.
Some of those attitudes (like, “I’m a fun person and I like to meet a lot of new and interesting people”, or “women are fascinating and I want to meet them all”) have MUCH better effects on the person holding them, as well as better effects on the people they come into contact with.
You provided no empirical data. You made a rather vague claim about some supposed empirical data, and its reason-providing nature. Did you have, say, a study or something to back you up?
I didn’t vote you down, but I did just vote up to correct what I think was an inappropriate downvote, but perhaps the person downvoted for alluding to “good, empirical” reasons but not spelling them out. I’ve noticed comments that allude to things without elaborating giving any detail whatsoever often get voted down.
No you are not mistaken, but there are good, empirical reasons for this attitude.
So, this comment got downvoted, why? I provided a piece of valuable empirical data which constrains our model of reality to the group mind, and then I got punished for doing so. Maybe I should stop optimizing my comments for informativeness, and start trying to just optimize for whatever people vote up?
I don’t think so. The behavior of “if at first you don’t succeed” has obvious empirical backing, but there is more than one attitude that can generate that same behavior.
Some of those attitudes (like, “I’m a fun person and I like to meet a lot of new and interesting people”, or “women are fascinating and I want to meet them all”) have MUCH better effects on the person holding them, as well as better effects on the people they come into contact with.
You provided no empirical data. You made a rather vague claim about some supposed empirical data, and its reason-providing nature. Did you have, say, a study or something to back you up?
I didn’t vote you down, but I did just vote up to correct what I think was an inappropriate downvote, but perhaps the person downvoted for alluding to “good, empirical” reasons but not spelling them out. I’ve noticed comments that allude to things without elaborating giving any detail whatsoever often get voted down.