I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the comments involved in this case is not that.
I moved the Rational Politics Project to Gleb’s drafts because the discussion seemed insufficiently good.
Don’t we not do politics here? Maybe make a Thunderdome area where people can just fight about politics?
I think there are some interesting topics in that area and I’d like to post about them at some point.
I think there are some interesting topics in that area, and I hope you post about them at some point … elsewhere.
Elsewhere as in another website?
Yes. Less Wrong has done well at avoiding politics, and I hope it stays that way.
Less Wrong has not been doing well since 2013 or something, so one could perhaps rephrase this as
“Less wrong has been doing rather badly due (in part) to a lack of content, but I think metapolitical content is bad enough to be even worse”
Working on it.
What’s the standard for a “sufficiently good” discussion around here? Just wondering—maybe you should just put the whole site in “draft mode”!
(With apologies to Holmes)