+1 for pointing out an important problem, −1 for relaxing the norm against politics on LW. This sounds like a case of “we should try it, but try it somewhere far away where we won’t accidentally light anything important on fire”.
I’m not very familiar with the rationalist diaspora, but I wonder if there were or are spaces within that where political discussions are allowed or welcome, how things turned out, and what lessons we can learn from their history to inform future experiments.
I do know about the weekly cultural war threads on TheMotte and the “EA discuss politics” Facebook group but haven’t observed them long enough to make any strong conclusions. Also, for my tastes, they seem a little bit too far removed from LW both culturally and in terms of overlapping membership because they both spawned from LW-adjacent groups rather than LW itself.
+1 for pointing out an important problem, −1 for relaxing the norm against politics on LW. This sounds like a case of “we should try it, but try it somewhere far away where we won’t accidentally light anything important on fire”.
I’m not very familiar with the rationalist diaspora, but I wonder if there were or are spaces within that where political discussions are allowed or welcome, how things turned out, and what lessons we can learn from their history to inform future experiments.
I do know about the weekly cultural war threads on TheMotte and the “EA discuss politics” Facebook group but haven’t observed them long enough to make any strong conclusions. Also, for my tastes, they seem a little bit too far removed from LW both culturally and in terms of overlapping membership because they both spawned from LW-adjacent groups rather than LW itself.