I think literally just prepending “Humor:” or “Mostly joking:” would make me think this was basically fine. Or like a footnote saying “mostly a joke / not justifying this here”. Like it’s just good to be clear about what is non-argued for humor vs what is a serious criticism (and if it is a serious criticism of this sort, then I think we should have reasonably high standards for this, e.g. like the questions in my comment are relevant).
Idk what the overall policy for lesswrong should be, but this sort of thing does feel scary to me and worth being on guard about.
To clarify my perspective a bit here:
I think literally just prepending “Humor:” or “Mostly joking:” would make me think this was basically fine. Or like a footnote saying “mostly a joke / not justifying this here”. Like it’s just good to be clear about what is non-argued for humor vs what is a serious criticism (and if it is a serious criticism of this sort, then I think we should have reasonably high standards for this, e.g. like the questions in my comment are relevant).
Idk what the overall policy for lesswrong should be, but this sort of thing does feel scary to me and worth being on guard about.
edit: I just removed it instead.
But it couldn’t be a serious criticism; the Necronomicon hasn’t actually been discovered.