I downvoted the OP—it didn’t have anything new, and didn’t really make any logical connections between things, just stating a final position on something that’s nowhere near as simple as presented. Oh, and because it’s completely unworkable for a consequentialist who doesn’t have a reliable “permanent enemy detector”, which is the point of my comment.
I didn’t expect the mixed reaction for my comment, but I kind of didn’t expect many votes in either direction. to some extent I perpetrated the same thing as the OP—not a lot of novelty, and no logical connection between concepts. I think it was on-topic and did point out some issues with the OP, so I’m taking the downvotes as disagreement rather than annoyance over presentation.
edit: strong votes really make it hard to get a good signal from this. Currently, this comment has ONE vote for +10 karma, and my ancestor comment responding to the post itself has 11 votes for +6 karma. I’ve removed my default 2-point vote from both. But what in heck am I supposed to take from those numbers?
I’m kinda surprised this comment is so controversial. I’m curious what people are objecting to resulting in downvotes.
I’m surprised by the degree of controversialness of the OP and… all the comments so far?
I downvoted the OP—it didn’t have anything new, and didn’t really make any logical connections between things, just stating a final position on something that’s nowhere near as simple as presented. Oh, and because it’s completely unworkable for a consequentialist who doesn’t have a reliable “permanent enemy detector”, which is the point of my comment.
I didn’t expect the mixed reaction for my comment, but I kind of didn’t expect many votes in either direction. to some extent I perpetrated the same thing as the OP—not a lot of novelty, and no logical connection between concepts. I think it was on-topic and did point out some issues with the OP, so I’m taking the downvotes as disagreement rather than annoyance over presentation.
edit: strong votes really make it hard to get a good signal from this. Currently, this comment has ONE vote for +10 karma, and my ancestor comment responding to the post itself has 11 votes for +6 karma. I’ve removed my default 2-point vote from both. But what in heck am I supposed to take from those numbers?
That’s totally fair for LessWrong, haha. I should probably try to reset things so my blog doesn’t automatically post here except when I want it to.