I downvoted the OP—it didn’t have anything new, and didn’t really make any logical connections between things, just stating a final position on something that’s nowhere near as simple as presented. Oh, and because it’s completely unworkable for a consequentialist who doesn’t have a reliable “permanent enemy detector”, which is the point of my comment.
I didn’t expect the mixed reaction for my comment, but I kind of didn’t expect many votes in either direction. to some extent I perpetrated the same thing as the OP—not a lot of novelty, and no logical connection between concepts. I think it was on-topic and did point out some issues with the OP, so I’m taking the downvotes as disagreement rather than annoyance over presentation.
edit: strong votes really make it hard to get a good signal from this. Currently, this comment has ONE vote for +10 karma, and my ancestor comment responding to the post itself has 11 votes for +6 karma. I’ve removed my default 2-point vote from both. But what in heck am I supposed to take from those numbers?
I downvoted the OP—it didn’t have anything new, and didn’t really make any logical connections between things, just stating a final position on something that’s nowhere near as simple as presented. Oh, and because it’s completely unworkable for a consequentialist who doesn’t have a reliable “permanent enemy detector”, which is the point of my comment.
I didn’t expect the mixed reaction for my comment, but I kind of didn’t expect many votes in either direction. to some extent I perpetrated the same thing as the OP—not a lot of novelty, and no logical connection between concepts. I think it was on-topic and did point out some issues with the OP, so I’m taking the downvotes as disagreement rather than annoyance over presentation.
edit: strong votes really make it hard to get a good signal from this. Currently, this comment has ONE vote for +10 karma, and my ancestor comment responding to the post itself has 11 votes for +6 karma. I’ve removed my default 2-point vote from both. But what in heck am I supposed to take from those numbers?
That’s totally fair for LessWrong, haha. I should probably try to reset things so my blog doesn’t automatically post here except when I want it to.