The Gelman post in question is importantly not about arguing for the linked post being bad/stupid, it was taking it fully as a given. I actually think that’s an importantly different dynamic because if you are in a context where you can actually presume with your audience that something is bad, then writing it in a title isn’t actually influencing the status landscape very much (though it’s tricky).
Similarly, I think on LessWrong writing a title which presumes the falsity of the existence of a christian god would in other contexts I think be a pretty bad thing to do, but on LessWrong be totally fine, for similar reasons.
The Gelman post in question is importantly not about arguing for the linked post being bad/stupid, it was taking it fully as a given. I actually think that’s an importantly different dynamic because if you are in a context where you can actually presume with your audience that something is bad, then writing it in a title isn’t actually influencing the status landscape very much (though it’s tricky).
Similarly, I think on LessWrong writing a title which presumes the falsity of the existence of a christian god would in other contexts I think be a pretty bad thing to do, but on LessWrong be totally fine, for similar reasons.