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[zroe1]

Does anyone have good examples of “anomalous” LessWrong comments?

That is, are there comments with +50 karma but −50 agree/​disagree points? Likewise, are there examples with −25 karma but +25 agree/​disagree points?

It is entirely natural that karma and agreement would be correlated but I would expect that comments which are especially out of distribution would be interesting to look at.

[gustaf]

Oliver Habryka:

Please just ask us if you want publicly available but annoying to get information about LW posts!

Here is a quick analysis by myself. Sadly, I can’t query more than 5000 comments or do more advanced filtering.

LessWrong comments with more than 100 Karma sorted by lowest agreement scores:

1. Counter List of Lethalities by Matthew Barnett with 148 karma and −33 agreement

2. LLM-like comment by David Lorell with 131 karma and −9 agreement

3. by Tamay from EpochAI with 127 karma and −6 agreement

LessWrong comments with more than 50 Karma sorted by lowest agreement scores:

1. by Nora Belrose with 52 karma and −58 agreement

2. “Showers are overstimulating” by Aella with 93 karma and −43 agreement

3. by suspected_spinozist with 89 karma and −39 agreement

4. same Matthew Barnett comment again from first list

5. on Said Achmiz by sunwillrise with 60 karma and −31 agreement

Last 5000 LessWrong comments sorted by lowest agreement scores:

1. by ani norborger with −31 karma and −10 agreement

2. by M. Y. Zuo with −30 karma and −7 agreement

3. by Al W with −22 karma and 3 agreement

4. by milanrosko with −17 karma and −2 agreement

5. by Mikhail Samin with −13 karma and −3 agreement

Last 5000 LessWrong comments with negative Karma sorted by highest agreement scores:

1. humor by Three-Monkey Mind with −2 karma and 8 agreement

2. “No.” by rotatingpaguro with −7 karma and 7 agreement

3. comment judges as Too Sneering by SE Gyges with −7 karma and 5 agreement

4. political comment by interstice with −5 karma and 4 agreement

5. “johnswentworth is a freaky guy.” by Al W with −22 karma and 3 agreement

[zroe1]

Thank you! These are very interesting.

[Zack_M_Davis]

examples with −25 karma but +25 agree/​disagree points?

At press time, Warty’s comment on “The Tale of the Top-Tier Intellect” is at −24/​+24 (in 28 and 21 votes, respectively).

[ajskateboarder]

This comment on its own had some discussion about how people were voting on it