I think my comments still apply to LW as you described? I guess you could cash out what I’m saying as: You should say what you mean by Art of Discourse (or whatever are most of the core things you’re trying to make space for in LW), such that you’re willing to also then say: this is the thing we’re trying to do here, this is the ideal which users can
validate our mod actions against,
have recourse to object to mod or user actions, or call mod principles into question,
rely on to be the long-term trend of the community.
(And then say that.) Of course the thing will be in many ways vague and unspecified, and require a lot of interpretation. But in the absence of actual law, which would be better but would be costly as you say, it seems to me much better than nothing. You gestured at that in your post: “communicating in ways that more reliably result in those conversing (and reading along) having more true beliefs”. But I think more has to be said.
Yes, “Rule of Man” is a nearly maximally bad choice of words.
I think my comments still apply to LW as you described? I guess you could cash out what I’m saying as: You should say what you mean by Art of Discourse (or whatever are most of the core things you’re trying to make space for in LW), such that you’re willing to also then say: this is the thing we’re trying to do here, this is the ideal which users can
validate our mod actions against,
have recourse to object to mod or user actions, or call mod principles into question,
rely on to be the long-term trend of the community.
(And then say that.) Of course the thing will be in many ways vague and unspecified, and require a lot of interpretation. But in the absence of actual law, which would be better but would be costly as you say, it seems to me much better than nothing. You gestured at that in your post: “communicating in ways that more reliably result in those conversing (and reading along) having more true beliefs”. But I think more has to be said.
Yes, “Rule of Man” is a nearly maximally bad choice of words.