Well, to the defense of those of us who think V_V a troll, if I remember correctly he marked his early existence in LessWrong by accusing Anna Salamon of being a spammer (when she made a post announcing some activity of CFAR). Since then he’s done the occasional “you’re all cultists” thing, and smirked about it in Rationalwiki.
In my mind, I’ve grouped him with Dmytry/private_messaging and Alexander Kruel/Xixidu. It’s not about people who disagree, it’s about people who have acted like assholes, who seem to enjoy to make fun of people with different opinions, who don’t actually care whether what they say has truth-content in it, etc, etc—and who after spending so much time in LessWrong, they then go somewhere else and insult the people who spend time in LessWrong.
You know, it’s starting to seem that your definition of “troll” is “someone who dares disagree with Eliezer’s firmly held beliefs”.
Don’t feed the troll. :D
Well, to the defense of those of us who think V_V a troll, if I remember correctly he marked his early existence in LessWrong by accusing Anna Salamon of being a spammer (when she made a post announcing some activity of CFAR). Since then he’s done the occasional “you’re all cultists” thing, and smirked about it in Rationalwiki.
In my mind, I’ve grouped him with Dmytry/private_messaging and Alexander Kruel/Xixidu. It’s not about people who disagree, it’s about people who have acted like assholes, who seem to enjoy to make fun of people with different opinions, who don’t actually care whether what they say has truth-content in it, etc, etc—and who after spending so much time in LessWrong, they then go somewhere else and insult the people who spend time in LessWrong.