Noted. For what it’s worth, I haven’t as yet seen much reason to believe that the LW moderators think they are empowered “to make judgement calls controlling the minute details of everyone’s behaviour”.
If you delete the word “the”, or better yet make things more explicit along the lines of “to make judgement calls about small details of what behaviour is acceptable when posting/commenting on Less Wrong”, then I dare say the moderators consider themselves empowered to do that. But that’s very much not the sort of thing that I understand when I read “make judgement calls controlling the minute details of everyone’s behaviour”, especially not at the end of an article full of examples about regulation of neurotoxic chemicals and road safety.
So perhaps this is yet another case where Zack says something that can with substantial stretching be interpreted as something true, but that (at least as it seems to me; others’ intuitions may differ) is an extremely unnatural way to say what he claims was all he was saying, and that strongly suggests something much worse but that is not actually true. I am beginning to find it rather tiring.
Noted. For what it’s worth, I haven’t as yet seen much reason to believe that the LW moderators think they are empowered “to make judgement calls controlling the minute details of everyone’s behaviour”.
If you delete the word “the”, or better yet make things more explicit along the lines of “to make judgement calls about small details of what behaviour is acceptable when posting/commenting on Less Wrong”, then I dare say the moderators consider themselves empowered to do that. But that’s very much not the sort of thing that I understand when I read “make judgement calls controlling the minute details of everyone’s behaviour”, especially not at the end of an article full of examples about regulation of neurotoxic chemicals and road safety.
So perhaps this is yet another case where Zack says something that can with substantial stretching be interpreted as something true, but that (at least as it seems to me; others’ intuitions may differ) is an extremely unnatural way to say what he claims was all he was saying, and that strongly suggests something much worse but that is not actually true. I am beginning to find it rather tiring.