This is a reasonable argument
about defending the garden of Athenian democracy.
Still, every Socrates also deserves a
garden of their own.
The problem arises when there are not enough gardens for everyone
to go around, or when either Socrates or Athenian democracy
start unilaterally demanding other gardens to follow their norms.
The desolate phase of LW suggests
that a Socrates’s garden scares away the builders and becomes desolate,
a bad use for limited resouces.
Though a failing project can be worth fighting for.
I don’t see how this can be reliably generalized to the present,
but I think it’s a good enough point to avoid turning the whole of LW
into purely a Socrates’s garden.
The current policy of allowing authors to ban users from their posts
is a step in the direction of addressing this issue.
Still, some sort of
archipelago setup
seems better than the other extreme
of turning LW into purely Athenian democracy’s garden.
Socrates should have a home around here.
The pragmatic question is the nature of boundaries
that protect these frames from each other.
There are some stirrings with the
core tag filter system
intended to protect rationality readership from AI content.
If it matures enough to enable coexistence of disjoint bubbles,
there might be something there.
Technical solutions to social problems.
This is a reasonable argument about defending the garden of Athenian democracy. Still, every Socrates also deserves a garden of their own. The problem arises when there are not enough gardens for everyone to go around, or when either Socrates or Athenian democracy start unilaterally demanding other gardens to follow their norms.
The desolate phase of LW suggests that a Socrates’s garden scares away the builders and becomes desolate, a bad use for limited resouces. Though a failing project can be worth fighting for. I don’t see how this can be reliably generalized to the present, but I think it’s a good enough point to avoid turning the whole of LW into purely a Socrates’s garden. The current policy of allowing authors to ban users from their posts is a step in the direction of addressing this issue.
Still, some sort of archipelago setup seems better than the other extreme of turning LW into purely Athenian democracy’s garden. Socrates should have a home around here. The pragmatic question is the nature of boundaries that protect these frames from each other. There are some stirrings with the core tag filter system intended to protect rationality readership from AI content. If it matures enough to enable coexistence of disjoint bubbles, there might be something there. Technical solutions to social problems.