All you are saying here is “The title of the Twelve Virtues makes me feel bad.” That is literally all you are saying, since you admit to not having read it.
That’s still an useful data-point. Do we want to scare away people with strong weirdness filters?
That’s still an useful data-point. Do we want to scare away people with strong weirdness filters?
The answer to this may very well turn out to be yes.
What proportion of top people at SIAI love sf?
It’s at least plausible that strong weirdness filters interfere with creativity.
On the other hand, weirdness is hard to define—sf is a rather common sort of weirdness these days..
There is no reason to turn them off right away. The blog itself is weird enough. Maybe they will be acclimated, which would be good.