taking the existence of a community of sane, reasonable, and mostly value-aligned participants as a given
Yeah. I’d phrase it as “reasonably sane, reasonably reasonable, and reasonably value-aligned.” I don’t think the LW commentariat is perfect, but, I think they are within a basin where “aiming for a sane political coalition” is a reasonble aspirational goal. (and, while I’d like to succeed at the most ambitious version of the thing, all it needs to succeed at is “be a better use of people’s time/attention than other things” (given that there are pretty compelling alternatives).
I know a lot of people around here with similar-ish political goals, and similar-ish ideals of what you might hope a rationalist political bloc to look like, such that “okay, translate that into implementation details” feels like the right step.
Yeah. I’d phrase it as “reasonably sane, reasonably reasonable, and reasonably value-aligned.” I don’t think the LW commentariat is perfect, but, I think they are within a basin where “aiming for a sane political coalition” is a reasonble aspirational goal. (and, while I’d like to succeed at the most ambitious version of the thing, all it needs to succeed at is “be a better use of people’s time/attention than other things” (given that there are pretty compelling alternatives).
I know a lot of people around here with similar-ish political goals, and similar-ish ideals of what you might hope a rationalist political bloc to look like, such that “okay, translate that into implementation details” feels like the right step.