Interesting charge. Don’t worry though, I caught your hostile signals.
Sorry, that came off more strongly than I intended. I think the main reason I reacted that way is because your post seemed to put status concerns above truth. In particular, this paragraph
The history of this site is not very long and it should not surprise anyone that most around here tow the Eliezer line. He created this site after becoming a smallish blog celebrity on overcomingbias. That those that came to populate this site largely agree with him should not at all be surprising. That you think no one should be able to charge groupthink comes off as incredibly defense and really silly given that it would be a little shocking if it wasn’t here.
Alleges that Less Wrong members are committing groupthink without claiming that they’re actually wrong about anything. That cleanly separates further discussion from the facts of any particular matter, and, while I acknowledge that this is an Eliezerish view to hold, I consider that a very bad thing.
making an unreasonable request for censorship
This was done in the past and I think it was a great request.
Technically, that was only a moratorium. But more to the point, topics come and go on Less Wrong, posts about particular topics tend to be temporally clustered, and there’re always some complaints about the current topic du jour. I wouldn’t worry about cryonics and FAI crowding out other topics; there’ve been enough posts about them recently that there isn’t much left to say, so we probably won’t hear much about them for awhile.
Sorry, that came off more strongly than I intended. I think the main reason I reacted that way is because your post seemed to put status concerns above truth. In particular, this paragraph
Alleges that Less Wrong members are committing groupthink without claiming that they’re actually wrong about anything. That cleanly separates further discussion from the facts of any particular matter, and, while I acknowledge that this is an Eliezerish view to hold, I consider that a very bad thing.
Technically, that was only a moratorium. But more to the point, topics come and go on Less Wrong, posts about particular topics tend to be temporally clustered, and there’re always some complaints about the current topic du jour. I wouldn’t worry about cryonics and FAI crowding out other topics; there’ve been enough posts about them recently that there isn’t much left to say, so we probably won’t hear much about them for awhile.