IMHO, just another mindkilled person. Similar in behavior to those who pull fire alarms when their opponents try to have a debate. Except that LW is the place they want to “protect”, and downvoting is the closest local equivalent of the fire alarm.
Many parts of a civilized society are built on the assumption that people in general follow some norms. For example we can only have windows because there is a norm against throwing stones into them. Once in a while someone violates the norm, but as long as they are a small minority, the problem can be dealt with. However, if suddenly half of the population would start throwing stones into windows at every opportunity, we couldn’t have windows anymore, at least not how we have them now.
For a mindkilled person it is easy to believe that the usual norms don’t apply to them, because the victory of their tribe is of the utmost importance.
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/ngj/open_thread_april_4_april_10_2016/d7q6
In a follow up of unprecedented proportions—our disappointing protagonist Aladdin returns in the long awaited sequel Lamp2.
And Lamp3.
Eh, unfriendly human intelligence (in the sense of his moral system being completely orthogonal to anything that I can conceive).
IMHO, just another mindkilled person. Similar in behavior to those who pull fire alarms when their opponents try to have a debate. Except that LW is the place they want to “protect”, and downvoting is the closest local equivalent of the fire alarm.
Many parts of a civilized society are built on the assumption that people in general follow some norms. For example we can only have windows because there is a norm against throwing stones into them. Once in a while someone violates the norm, but as long as they are a small minority, the problem can be dealt with. However, if suddenly half of the population would start throwing stones into windows at every opportunity, we couldn’t have windows anymore, at least not how we have them now.
For a mindkilled person it is easy to believe that the usual norms don’t apply to them, because the victory of their tribe is of the utmost importance.