I don’t think that negative votes on this comment reflects its value, if people who downvoted this comment could explain why I think that would be helpful for discourse.
If I had to guess why this comment has been heavily downvoted I think it would be because the tone of the comment could seem a bit adversarial and possibly because the original commenter is well known within the EA community and some people don’t like attacks on their group. I hope that I am wrong and people are downvoting this on more reasonable grounds, but as I said before it would be great that could be made clear.
I want to apologize for both the tone and relative lack of informativeness in my responses—it seems to me that our thinking here is extremely difficult to reconcile in the low-bandwidth medium of writing.
I don’t think that negative votes on this comment reflects its value, if people who downvoted this comment could explain why I think that would be helpful for discourse.
If I had to guess why this comment has been heavily downvoted I think it would be because the tone of the comment could seem a bit adversarial and possibly because the original commenter is well known within the EA community and some people don’t like attacks on their group. I hope that I am wrong and people are downvoting this on more reasonable grounds, but as I said before it would be great that could be made clear.
I’ve upvoted the response and am also confused why it is getting downvoted.
I want to apologize for both the tone and relative lack of informativeness in my responses—it seems to me that our thinking here is extremely difficult to reconcile in the low-bandwidth medium of writing.