It works for getting the typical LMArena user to click the like button, but it's not clear that it works for persuasion or anything else. Personally I find the style very offputting and usually stop reading when I notice it.

This is an important topic, but this post seems like it was written by AI.

I don't know how people get the idea that this type of reckless behavior is anything remotely like what Gwern's essay recommends.

GW deals with this by blocking scrolling and blanking out the page until the relevant anchor tag has loaded.

How do you envision that happening, concretely? It seems to me that elites are elite because they are simply the best at doing whatever it takes to maintain their power, and any replacement elite would have to do similar things or itself be replaced. If it were possible for the majority to govern society for their own benefit from the bottom up, we'd be living in a communist utopia already.

How do you evaluate the cost/benefit of buying more flour than necessary and bringing the wrong wine versus being a slave to your phone at all times?

It pretty much guarantees extinction, but people can have different opinions on how bad that is relative to disempowerment, S-risks, etc.

We don't know of an alignment target that everyone can agree on, so solving alignment pretty much guarantees misuse by at least some people's lights.

I'm still not convinced it's a good idea to get enlightened, but thanks for the detailed explanation.