I had similar thoughts. And indeed I found funny that a forum of rationalists falls for this.
But this is human nature, and we have finite time and energy to focus on things.
You will find the same for the attention papers written by people at famous institutions get, even if low quality.
Making names, recently, I had a similar feeling when looking at “AI as Normal Technology”. I did not know the authors, and I was skimming it because someone talked about it.
It is also a reason for which sometimes celebrities are called to do propaganda.
A strategy would be to make make posts anonymous for a limited amount of time (perhaps with some text randomization that would slightly change the style of the author/s, even though this might affect quality).
I had similar thoughts. And indeed I found funny that a forum of rationalists falls for this.
But this is human nature, and we have finite time and energy to focus on things.
You will find the same for the attention papers written by people at famous institutions get, even if low quality.
Making names, recently, I had a similar feeling when looking at “AI as Normal Technology”. I did not know the authors, and I was skimming it because someone talked about it.
It is also a reason for which sometimes celebrities are called to do propaganda.
A strategy would be to make make posts anonymous for a limited amount of time (perhaps with some text randomization that would slightly change the style of the author/s, even though this might affect quality).