Unsurprisingly, this comment got pushback. Surprisingly to me, the pushback claims Yudkowsky’s comma use is not wrong. I expected pushback on learning comma rules given comma errors, not on the comma errors themselves.
What also surprised me is that I can’t reply to any of the pushback. I’m rate limited after only one comment today, even though a few days ago I posted 3 comments in a day. I thought the rate limits were changed, which I took into account before posting something that I knew I’d likely want to follow up on.
Not a good experience trying to talk at LessWrong. My negative Karma is from LessWrong 1.0, over 10 years ago. I don’t even know how it was calculated in the LessWrong 2.0 upgrade. They changed the karma system, so I don’t know if stuff was recalculated based on the new system or not. IIRC, votes on top level posts used to count 10x and most of my negative karma came from getting a few top level posts downvoted, and that’s not how LessWrong works anymore, and I don’t know if that is currently affecting my karma or not. Also, my karma has been manually changed by admins at least twice, and I don’t know exactly what they did. So I don’t even know how well my karma corresponds to votes.