I wonder if we could’ve simply added to the sidebar some text saying “By promoting Soares & Yudkowsky’s new book, we mean to say that it’s a great piece of writing on an important+interesting question by some great LessWrong writers, but are not endorsing the content of the book as ‘true’.”
Or shorter: “This promotion does not imply endorsement of object level claims, simply that we think it’s a good intellectual contribution.”
Or perhaps a longer thing in a hover-over / footnote.
I wonder if we could’ve simply added to the sidebar some text saying “By promoting Soares & Yudkowsky’s new book, we mean to say that it’s a great piece of writing on an important+interesting question by some great LessWrong writers, but are not endorsing the content of the book as ‘true’.”
Or shorter: “This promotion does not imply endorsement of object level claims, simply that we think it’s a good intellectual contribution.”
Or perhaps a longer thing in a hover-over / footnote.