It’s part of a debate series, so in my opinion it’s entirely fine for it to be Nora’s perspective. Her post is quite open that she thinks Alignment is going well, and I valued it a lot even if I disagreed with specific points in it. I don’t think Nora’s being intentionally wrong, those are just claims she believes that may turn out to be incorrect.
I agree with this (apart from the “valued it a lot” part, and I think Nora is coming in with a pro-AI bias). I downvoted because I thought the karma total was (still is) way too high, and high karma posts and their headlines do, for better or worse, influence the community and how it directs its resources.
I suppose I’d caution against presupposing your conclusion is so correct that other views, such as Nora’s, don’t deserve a hearing in the public sphere.
Again, it deserves a hearing. I’m upset by how highly upvoted it is. If it was on, say, 10 karma (on a similar number of votes), I wouldn’t’ve downvoted it any further[1].
[I also upvoted, disagreevoted your comment above :)]
It’s currently on 101 karma on 114 votes, which at least marks it out as somewhat controversial (I think <1 karma/vote is generally the sign of a controversial post on the EA Forum). Note for reference that my post from a few months ago, raising the alarm about very short term AGI x-risk, is on 66 karma from 100 votes. But I made the mistake of cross-posting it to LW (where people are generally allergic to any kind of political activism), which led to a bunch of people coming over from there and downvoting it here as well.
I agree with this (apart from the “valued it a lot” part, and I think Nora is coming in with a pro-AI bias). I downvoted because I thought the karma total was (still is) way too high, and high karma posts and their headlines do, for better or worse, influence the community and how it directs its resources.
Again, it deserves a hearing. I’m upset by how highly upvoted it is. If it was on, say, 10 karma (on a similar number of votes), I wouldn’t’ve downvoted it any further[1].
[I also upvoted, disagreevoted your comment above :)]
It’s currently on 101 karma on 114 votes, which at least marks it out as somewhat controversial (I think <1 karma/vote is generally the sign of a controversial post on the EA Forum). Note for reference that my post from a few months ago, raising the alarm about very short term AGI x-risk, is on 66 karma from 100 votes. But I made the mistake of cross-posting it to LW (where people are generally allergic to any kind of political activism), which led to a bunch of people coming over from there and downvoting it here as well.