I think what makes it apropos is that it’s one of Zvi’s blog posts, and Zvi is one of the people whose blog posts get auto-syndicated here on LW because they are sufficiently often LW-relevant. See also: jefftk, who sometimes posts very-LW-relevant things and sometimes posts “here’s a cute thing my children did” or “here’s some information about contra dancing”, but all of it appears here.
(For the avoidance of doubt, none of the above is complaint or criticism; I too enjoy reading the not-very-LW-ish stuff written by these people and don’t think it does any particular harm for it to appear on LW.)
[EDITED to add:] When I wrote the above, I didn’t see that gwern had also replied saying something similar. My apologies for the redundancy. I don’t think it’s so redundant that I need to delete it :-).
I think what makes it apropos is that it’s one of Zvi’s blog posts, and Zvi is one of the people whose blog posts get auto-syndicated here on LW because they are sufficiently often LW-relevant. See also: jefftk, who sometimes posts very-LW-relevant things and sometimes posts “here’s a cute thing my children did” or “here’s some information about contra dancing”, but all of it appears here.
(For the avoidance of doubt, none of the above is complaint or criticism; I too enjoy reading the not-very-LW-ish stuff written by these people and don’t think it does any particular harm for it to appear on LW.)
[EDITED to add:] When I wrote the above, I didn’t see that gwern had also replied saying something similar. My apologies for the redundancy. I don’t think it’s so redundant that I need to delete it :-).