The naive social rules are that you don’t talk about sex, politics or religion on the dinner table. The three topics can easily trigger strong emotions and take over attention.
When wanting to illustrate an abstract rationality principles it’s therefore good to stay away from them and use less emotionally laden examples for the reasons Eliezer laid out in his “Politics is the Mindkiller”-post.
When it comes to explicitly forbidding either sex or politics, I don’t think that’s a good move. It’s useful to have a place where rational discussions over both can be had. I find it okay to keep both away from the front page and leave them to the individual blogs. I don’t think we need to use banning to do this as karma voting works for setting community norms.
I would be okay with a post who summaries STD facts on the front page or a post that’s about politics that goes beyond personal opinion and is well researched and I think karma voting is a good vehicle to decide on edge cases.
It would be nice to have a way to tag posts and afterwards have a way for people to filter out sex and/or politics posts they don’t like to see.
At the LessWrong Europe community weekend one session had a group discussion about sex and the session was well-received.
The naive social rules are that you don’t talk about sex, politics or religion on the dinner table. The three topics can easily trigger strong emotions and take over attention.
When wanting to illustrate an abstract rationality principles it’s therefore good to stay away from them and use less emotionally laden examples for the reasons Eliezer laid out in his “Politics is the Mindkiller”-post.
When it comes to explicitly forbidding either sex or politics, I don’t think that’s a good move. It’s useful to have a place where rational discussions over both can be had. I find it okay to keep both away from the front page and leave them to the individual blogs. I don’t think we need to use banning to do this as karma voting works for setting community norms.
I would be okay with a post who summaries STD facts on the front page or a post that’s about politics that goes beyond personal opinion and is well researched and I think karma voting is a good vehicle to decide on edge cases.
It would be nice to have a way to tag posts and afterwards have a way for people to filter out sex and/or politics posts they don’t like to see.
At the LessWrong Europe community weekend one session had a group discussion about sex and the session was well-received.