Yeah, when my own automatic strong upvote is included, this has 4 votes and 3 net karma. But if I remove my strong upvote, itās on 3 votes and ā4 karma. (All posts automatically start with a strong upvote from the poster.)
I was an early voter and gave a weak upvote, so I think there is probably a single individual who strongly downvoted. I wouldnāt worry about it or take too much from it. Itās dangerous to extrapolate too much from a single individual and I think youāll find people will quite like this post overall if you give it a bit more time.
I liked this post because I think it probably has helped me decide a few things where I was previously unsure:
Iāve been thinking about reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies but wasnāt too sure if it was worth it, but now I think I will just do it.
Iāve also been quite unsure about Human Compatible vs TheAlignment Problem but I think I may go for the latter. I am somewhat familiar with the AI arguments but certainly not ā4 books familiarā.
I have The Precipice and have read some of it which I found useful, but I may now delve in again to ensure Iāve got everything of use. Also I want to have a look at what youāve written about it (given that it has been so useful to you).
Itās dangerous to extrapolate too much from a single individual and I think youāll find people will quite like this post overall if you give it a bit more time.
I agree with both of those points. But the reason I asked wasnāt because the strong downvote hurt my ego or something (it probably wouldāve earlier in my Forum journey, but now Iāve posted a lot and gotten research jobs Iām happy with so Iām more protected from that). Rather, it was that I was just really confused as to why there was a strong downvote, so it suggested that there was something I was failing to understand, which might be important somehow.
(Itād be different if I made a post that I knew might be controversial for a particular reason, but hoped would be overall liked. Then if a downvote came in, itād still contain new info, but Iād know what the info meant.)
(And it now turns out that the reason for the downvote was something I wouldnāt have easily guessed, and the info it turns out to have contained is interesting.)
Anyway, thanks for giving that info on ways in which this post was helpful for youāthatās good (and useful) to know!
Yeah, when my own automatic strong upvote is included, this has 4 votes and 3 net karma. But if I remove my strong upvote, itās on 3 votes and ā4 karma. (All posts automatically start with a strong upvote from the poster.)
I was an early voter and gave a weak upvote, so I think there is probably a single individual who strongly downvoted. I wouldnāt worry about it or take too much from it. Itās dangerous to extrapolate too much from a single individual and I think youāll find people will quite like this post overall if you give it a bit more time.
I liked this post because I think it probably has helped me decide a few things where I was previously unsure:
Iāve been thinking about reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies but wasnāt too sure if it was worth it, but now I think I will just do it.
Iāve also been quite unsure about Human Compatible vs The Alignment Problem but I think I may go for the latter. I am somewhat familiar with the AI arguments but certainly not ā4 books familiarā.
I have The Precipice and have read some of it which I found useful, but I may now delve in again to ensure Iāve got everything of use. Also I want to have a look at what youāve written about it (given that it has been so useful to you).
I agree with both of those points. But the reason I asked wasnāt because the strong downvote hurt my ego or something (it probably wouldāve earlier in my Forum journey, but now Iāve posted a lot and gotten research jobs Iām happy with so Iām more protected from that). Rather, it was that I was just really confused as to why there was a strong downvote, so it suggested that there was something I was failing to understand, which might be important somehow.
(Itād be different if I made a post that I knew might be controversial for a particular reason, but hoped would be overall liked. Then if a downvote came in, itād still contain new info, but Iād know what the info meant.)
(And it now turns out that the reason for the downvote was something I wouldnāt have easily guessed, and the info it turns out to have contained is interesting.)
Anyway, thanks for giving that info on ways in which this post was helpful for youāthatās good (and useful) to know!