FWIW I do aspire to things discussed in Sarah Constantin’s Neutrality essay. For instance, I want it to be true that regardless of whether your position is popular or unpopular, your arguments will be evaluated on their merits on LessWrong. (This can never be perfectly true but I do think it is the case that in comments people primarily respond to arguments with counterarguments rather than with comments about popularity or status and so on, which is not the case in almost any other part of the public internet.)
Fair. In Sarah Constantin’s terminology, it seems you aspire to “potentially take a stand on the controversy, but only when a conclusion emerges from an impartial process that a priori could have come out either way”. I… really don’t know if I’d call that neutrality in the sense of the normal daily usage of neutrality. But I think it is a worthy and good goal.
FWIW I do aspire to things discussed in Sarah Constantin’s Neutrality essay. For instance, I want it to be true that regardless of whether your position is popular or unpopular, your arguments will be evaluated on their merits on LessWrong. (This can never be perfectly true but I do think it is the case that in comments people primarily respond to arguments with counterarguments rather than with comments about popularity or status and so on, which is not the case in almost any other part of the public internet.)
Fair. In Sarah Constantin’s terminology, it seems you aspire to “potentially take a stand on the controversy, but only when a conclusion emerges from an impartial process that a priori could have come out either way”. I… really don’t know if I’d call that neutrality in the sense of the normal daily usage of neutrality. But I think it is a worthy and good goal.