LW karma points are not earned for worshiping Eliezer. He’s a great guy, he’s doing a lot of good, and is a tremendous writer, but if he has his own cheerleader team, he must be hiding it somewhere, because LW is not it. It is OK to disagree with Eliezer, and actually he expects that to happen. We’re all here to help each other become less wrong.
“Intellectual soup-nazi” is the exact opposite of a man who said, “there is the Way and my Way, the pure (or perhaps shared) thing at the center, and the many paths we take there from wherever we started out [...] “I think there will not be a proper Art until many people have progressed to the point of remaking the Art in their own image, and then radioed back to describe their paths.”
Eliezer doesn’t decide whether you have enough karma to post; the community does. That way, your score serves as an indirect measure of how much your presence here adds to the quality of the discussion. If you can’t post because of too low karma, you can’t blame anyone but yourself (or the occasional karma troll).
Also I have to confess I knew all along who Eliezer was.
Let’s clear some things up:
LW karma points are not earned for worshiping Eliezer. He’s a great guy, he’s doing a lot of good, and is a tremendous writer, but if he has his own cheerleader team, he must be hiding it somewhere, because LW is not it. It is OK to disagree with Eliezer, and actually he expects that to happen. We’re all here to help each other become less wrong.
“Intellectual soup-nazi” is the exact opposite of a man who said, “there is the Way and my Way, the pure (or perhaps shared) thing at the center, and the many paths we take there from wherever we started out [...] “I think there will not be a proper Art until many people have progressed to the point of remaking the Art in their own image, and then radioed back to describe their paths.”
Eliezer doesn’t decide whether you have enough karma to post; the community does. That way, your score serves as an indirect measure of how much your presence here adds to the quality of the discussion. If you can’t post because of too low karma, you can’t blame anyone but yourself (or the occasional karma troll).
So you signed up here in order to… ?