Karma scores in this thread suggest it falls in reference class of “arguing against groupthink”, which ironically increases estimates of Eliezer being a crackpot, and lesswrong turning into a cult, possibly via evaporative cooling.
No, that’s really not borne out by the evidence. Multifolaterose’s posts have been strongly upvoted, it seems to me, by a significant group of readers who see themselves as defenders against groupthink. It’s just that you have been voted down for refusing to see a distinction that’s clearly there, between “here is a complicated thing which nevertheless must be reducible to simpler things, which is what we’re in the process of rigorously doing” and “here is a magical thing which we won’t ever have a mathematical understanding of, but it will work if we play by the right rules”.
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No, that’s really not borne out by the evidence. Multifolaterose’s posts have been strongly upvoted, it seems to me, by a significant group of readers who see themselves as defenders against groupthink. It’s just that you have been voted down for refusing to see a distinction that’s clearly there, between “here is a complicated thing which nevertheless must be reducible to simpler things, which is what we’re in the process of rigorously doing” and “here is a magical thing which we won’t ever have a mathematical understanding of, but it will work if we play by the right rules”.
Is there a way to find random sample of threads with heavy downvoting? My experience on reddit suggests it’s usually groupthink.
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