Eliezer passes 100,000 karma points

We need to make the green circle bigger!

(I had given thought to starting an "Eliezer 100,000" pool in the open thread ...)

Most of Eliezer's posts were originally made on Overcoming Bias, which has no karma system. They were ported to LW at its inception, so all upvotes occurred well after their writing. Certainly they scored a small fraction of what they would have, had they been written fresh on the site!

I also try not to make heros out of other mammals, but Eliezer is indeed 100,000 kinds of awesome!

The karma system just gives you an indicator for the relative appreciation of a user. For EY it could just say 'lots' and not even bother with a concrete number. It could also be logarithmic.

Oh, and you might consider dropping Gandhi at some point. Heroes have this tendency to appear bad when looked at from different times or contexts, or just close enough.

I would upvote this, but that would only make the effect worse!

So I'll go back and upvote some sequence stuff that I read before I got an account.

I echo luke's sentiments. Thanks Eliezer. www.Lesswrong.com is a resource that truly strikes at the heart of the matter.

Also: The Karma thing is a good way to prevent trolls and other less desirables from flooding the site with crap, plus find the more appreciated and higher contributors. I think it helps maintain the quality of discussion on this site.

My only problem is that I hate commenting unless I have something to add, which @ lesswrong.com is almost never (thanks to the diligence of the community here) but I need at least 2 points to bring up a topic in the dicussion board, where usually I just want to share how I'm using this site to encourage rationality in my local community, and also to ask if there are any Sydney, Australia meet ups.

Some of Yudkowsky's newer posts have received much less upvotes than yours or Yvain's. My guess is that if one of you would have been around when he started and tried hard enough you'd probably be at 100k yourself.

Once Yudkowsky's book comes out we'll see how he really compares to other people. Although Amazon reviews won't be a good measure I suppose ;-)

I'll just say this much (I've said it before, I think, but...): I find that much of my "cached wisdom" itself as of late seems to be coming from Eliezer, to the point that it's pretty much almost certain that if in conversation I use a phrase like "Someone I consider wise has noted that..." the someone in question is probably Eliezer.

So here's another thank you. :)

Writing the first chapter of "...and the Methods of Rationality" is a milestone all by itself. It's a wonder reading it hasn't given me hyper-cerebral electrosis.

raises a toast to the occasion!

Thanks, Eliezer.

Theliezer.

Eliezer is awesomecool! He's one of my heroes on Facebook! Yayyyyyyyyyy Eliezer! People like him and say nice things about him! May he be blessed with unalloyed yet deserved positive affect!

SIAI is totally awesome too! Good job making SIAI, Eliezer! Good luck with your proof proof proofs! May ye never forget to go meta, nor crumble in uncertainty, but especially may ye not forget to go meta! Yay Eliezer! 100,000 karma means... you are far from becoming Enlightened, but at least your rate of karma generation has gone down of late! Go you!

Karma system is not so good idea.