I don’t feel very confident about any of this, but, I think it’s just sort of fine if not all posts are for all people.
In any other topic than politics, I think it’d be be fine to have a lower effort meta post trying to get traction on how to think about the problem, with the people who are already following a topic, before writing higher effort posts that do a better job being a good canonical reference. It’s totally fine for someone to write an agent foundations post that just assumes a lot of background while some people hash out their latest ideas, and people who aren’t steeped in agent foundations just aren’t the target audience.
It’s possible politics should have different standards from that such that basically every posts should be accessible, but, that’s a fairly specific argument I’d need to hear.
I agree it’d be bad if there were only ever political posts like this. I don’t know if I think it’d be bad if 10% or 20% or 50% of posts like this, would need to think about it more.
I don’t feel very confident about any of this, but, I think it’s just sort of fine if not all posts are for all people.
In any other topic than politics, I think it’d be be fine to have a lower effort meta post trying to get traction on how to think about the problem, with the people who are already following a topic, before writing higher effort posts that do a better job being a good canonical reference. It’s totally fine for someone to write an agent foundations post that just assumes a lot of background while some people hash out their latest ideas, and people who aren’t steeped in agent foundations just aren’t the target audience.
It’s possible politics should have different standards from that such that basically every posts should be accessible, but, that’s a fairly specific argument I’d need to hear.
I agree it’d be bad if there were only ever political posts like this. I don’t know if I think it’d be bad if 10% or 20% or 50% of posts like this, would need to think about it more.