Why dishonest? What do you take a strong downvote to mean? I think I’m really misunderstanding most people here’s notion about the role of upvoted and downvotes.
As examples for both my stated actions, if a user wrote “you’re suggesting something that Trump wanted to do, so I think it’s bad” I’d downvote that comment; If a user wrote “The public doesn’t know what’s good for them, we should eventually find a way to do good without ever having to answer to politicians”, I’d think that’s the kind of arrogance that’s outright dangerous and should be contained, and I’d therefore strongly downvote it.
unless you’re referring to technical information hazards
It’s a separate discussion that I’m planning to write a post about (but probably never will 😅) - but I think EAs widely overestimate the size of the space of infohazards, and almost no comment a sane person could make would ever be one. I further think this is dangerous in itself, as it builds on a wrong belief that we’re better equipped to tackle problems than bad actors are to rediscover them.
So if someone wrote a detailed recipe for a novel pathogen, yeah I’d report them. Anything less than that, not really.
Why dishonest? What do you take a strong downvote to mean? I think I’m really misunderstanding most people here’s notion about the role of upvoted and downvotes.
As examples for both my stated actions, if a user wrote “you’re suggesting something that Trump wanted to do, so I think it’s bad” I’d downvote that comment; If a user wrote “The public doesn’t know what’s good for them, we should eventually find a way to do good without ever having to answer to politicians”, I’d think that’s the kind of arrogance that’s outright dangerous and should be contained, and I’d therefore strongly downvote it.
It’s a separate discussion that I’m planning to write a post about (but probably never will 😅) - but I think EAs widely overestimate the size of the space of infohazards, and almost no comment a sane person could make would ever be one. I further think this is dangerous in itself, as it builds on a wrong belief that we’re better equipped to tackle problems than bad actors are to rediscover them.
So if someone wrote a detailed recipe for a novel pathogen, yeah I’d report them. Anything less than that, not really.