I meant a relative Pareto frontier, vis-a-vis the LW team’s knowledge and resources. I think your posts on how to expand the frontier are absolutely great, and I think they (might) add to the available area within the frontier.
“If you want to suggest that OP is part of a “genre of rhetoric”: make the case that it is, name it explicitly.”
I mean, most of OP is about evoking emotion about community standards; deliberately evoking emotions is a standard part of rhetoric. (I don’t know what genre—ethos if you want to invoke Aristotle—but I don’t think it particularly matters.) OP explicitly says that he would like LW to be smaller—i.e., sacrifice other values, for the value he’s just evoked emotion about. I take this to just be a description of how the essay works, not a pejorative imputation of motives.
I could definitely have done better, and I too went through several drafts, and the one I posted was probably posted because I was tired of editing rather than because it was best. I have removed the sentences in the above that seem most pejorative.
I meant a relative Pareto frontier, vis-a-vis the LW team’s knowledge and resources. I think your posts on how to expand the frontier are absolutely great, and I think they (might) add to the available area within the frontier.
“If you want to suggest that OP is part of a “genre of rhetoric”: make the case that it is, name it explicitly.”
I mean, most of OP is about evoking emotion about community standards; deliberately evoking emotions is a standard part of rhetoric. (I don’t know what genre—ethos if you want to invoke Aristotle—but I don’t think it particularly matters.) OP explicitly says that he would like LW to be smaller—i.e., sacrifice other values, for the value he’s just evoked emotion about. I take this to just be a description of how the essay works, not a pejorative imputation of motives.
I could definitely have done better, and I too went through several drafts, and the one I posted was probably posted because I was tired of editing rather than because it was best. I have removed the sentences in the above that seem most pejorative.