My early posts on LW often consisted of pointing out places in the Sequences where Eliezer wasn’t careful enough. Shut Up and Divide? and Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity come to mind. And of course that’s not the only way to gain status here—the big status awards are given for coming up with novel ideas and backing them up with carefully constructed arguments.
My early posts on LW often consisted of pointing out places in the Sequences where Eliezer wasn’t careful enough. Shut Up and Divide? and Boredom vs. Scope Insensitivity come to mind. And of course that’s not the only way to gain status here—the big status awards are given for coming up with novel ideas and backing them up with carefully constructed arguments.