I didn’t know we are allowed to discuss politics here.
Politics in the American political horse-race sense (for non-Americans this means political party competition between Republicans and Democrats) and of the “yay political ingroup, boo political outgroup” in general remains at least taboo, and rightly would be downvoted into oblivion even where it isn’t strictly banned.
But the fully general “politics is the mindkiller” blanket ban on even mentioning politically connected subjects hasn’t been true for years. Among other things, AI is now a highly political subject, but analyzing administrative actions surrounding it, policy consequences, even things like actual political campaigns aimed at legislation (like the vetoed California law) are completely fair game. Direct political science style questions have been popular for years.
At this point, I claim our norms are strong enough that political topics are fine, provided they otherwise follow the norms. I would still support the mods nuking any posts that come pre-mindkilled, of course.
I don’t see it happen often, which is probably a combination of pre-mindkilled people not being attracted to LessWrong, our reputation for being intolerant of it proceeding us, and our mod team being very good.
Politics in the American political horse-race sense (for non-Americans this means political party competition between Republicans and Democrats) and of the “yay political ingroup, boo political outgroup” in general remains at least taboo, and rightly would be downvoted into oblivion even where it isn’t strictly banned.
But the fully general “politics is the mindkiller” blanket ban on even mentioning politically connected subjects hasn’t been true for years. Among other things, AI is now a highly political subject, but analyzing administrative actions surrounding it, policy consequences, even things like actual political campaigns aimed at legislation (like the vetoed California law) are completely fair game. Direct political science style questions have been popular for years.
At this point, I claim our norms are strong enough that political topics are fine, provided they otherwise follow the norms. I would still support the mods nuking any posts that come pre-mindkilled, of course.
I don’t see it happen often, which is probably a combination of pre-mindkilled people not being attracted to LessWrong, our reputation for being intolerant of it proceeding us, and our mod team being very good.
Well that’s it. I guess I am making this a frontpage post now.