On point 2, I think this is one of those cases where depending on your metric, there’s a strong power gradient in one or the other direction.
On one hand, I agree that Duncan’s faced a lot of often quite nasty criticism on the internet. While I haven’t looked at the stuff on Tumblr, I’m ready to believe that a lot of it was terrible and unfair. There is also a lot of criticism in the comments to this linkpost, and not a lot of praise or agreement by volume.
On the other, Duncan’s employed as an instructor at CFAR—an official representative of the community’s rationality standards, insofar as there’s any official apparatus at all—and the post was approvingly linked by another CFAR staff member.
Also, at the time of my initial comment, one of the top comments—maybe the most-upvoted at the time, not sure—was thanking Duncan for his bravery in writing this, with a response by a LessWrong moderator endorsing this. Other fairly central members of the Bay Area Rationalist and LessWrong communities participated in Dragon Army.
I agree that individuals’ perceptions of costs are likely to be biased in the way you say. I’m not asking you to privilege my perspective here.
On point 2, I think this is one of those cases where depending on your metric, there’s a strong power gradient in one or the other direction.
On one hand, I agree that Duncan’s faced a lot of often quite nasty criticism on the internet. While I haven’t looked at the stuff on Tumblr, I’m ready to believe that a lot of it was terrible and unfair. There is also a lot of criticism in the comments to this linkpost, and not a lot of praise or agreement by volume.
On the other, Duncan’s employed as an instructor at CFAR—an official representative of the community’s rationality standards, insofar as there’s any official apparatus at all—and the post was approvingly linked by another CFAR staff member.
Also, at the time of my initial comment, one of the top comments—maybe the most-upvoted at the time, not sure—was thanking Duncan for his bravery in writing this, with a response by a LessWrong moderator endorsing this. Other fairly central members of the Bay Area Rationalist and LessWrong communities participated in Dragon Army.
I agree that individuals’ perceptions of costs are likely to be biased in the way you say. I’m not asking you to privilege my perspective here.