I think the problem with this post is that it’s not clear about what the actual issue happens to be. There are a few different stakeholders with different interests and this post tries to avoid thinking about the interests of the individual stakeholders but focus on abstract principles.
Twitters current approach of how to deal with people is a lot more complicated than either banning or not banning a person.
I want LessWrong posts that touch on politically charged topics to focus on trying to deal with reality in the complexity that it has instead of dumbing down complexity.
I want LessWrong posts that touch on politically charged topics to focus on trying to deal with reality in the complexity that it has instead of dumbing down complexity.
Every post touching on political topics over the last week has some elements of ‘dumbing down complexity’ though?
This seems like an unrealistic expectation to impose on casual writers.
One definition I found for casual was “not serious or careful in attitude”. I don’t want to read political writing on LessWrong that’s not serious and careful in attitude.
LessWrong doesn’t exist for casual political conversation. There are serious political topics where it makes sense to speak carefully about them, and I do think those have a place on LessWrong but LessWrong can go without casual political discussion.
One definition I found for casual was “not serious or careful in attitude”. I don’t want to read political writing on LessWrong that’s not serious and careful in attitude.
The majority of such writing on LW is not seriously or carefully prepared beforehand. And that’s not limited to just political topics either.
I think the problem with this post is that it’s not clear about what the actual issue happens to be. There are a few different stakeholders with different interests and this post tries to avoid thinking about the interests of the individual stakeholders but focus on abstract principles.
Twitters current approach of how to deal with people is a lot more complicated than either banning or not banning a person.
I want LessWrong posts that touch on politically charged topics to focus on trying to deal with reality in the complexity that it has instead of dumbing down complexity.
Every post touching on political topics over the last week has some elements of ‘dumbing down complexity’ though?
This seems like an unrealistic expectation to impose on casual writers.
One definition I found for casual was “not serious or careful in attitude”. I don’t want to read political writing on LessWrong that’s not serious and careful in attitude.
LessWrong doesn’t exist for casual political conversation. There are serious political topics where it makes sense to speak carefully about them, and I do think those have a place on LessWrong but LessWrong can go without casual political discussion.
The majority of such writing on LW is not seriously or carefully prepared beforehand. And that’s not limited to just political topics either.