I’m torn, and didn’t vote. It’s not really what LW focuses on—no real rationality commentary or analysis. Politics is discouraged, but there are plenty of exceptions made.
This is more detailed, well-referenced, and objective-in-tone than the vast majority of somewhat-off-topic political posts.
I don’t want to see much of this on LW, and I don’t want to encourage others that LW is a place to find this topic. But I don’t hate having a small amount of high-quality questionably-relevant-to-LW content.
There’s not direct rationality commentary in the post, but there’s plenty of other posts on LW that also aren’t direct rationality commentary (for example, a large majority of posts here about COVID-19). I think that this post is a good fit because it provides tools for understanding this conflict and others like it, which I didn’t possess before and now somewhat do.
It’s not directly relevant to my life, but that’s fine. I imagine that for some here it might actually be relevant, because of connections through things like effective altruism (maybe it helps grant makers decide where to send funds to aid the Sudanese people?).
I’m torn, and didn’t vote. It’s not really what LW focuses on—no real rationality commentary or analysis. Politics is discouraged, but there are plenty of exceptions made.
This is more detailed, well-referenced, and objective-in-tone than the vast majority of somewhat-off-topic political posts.
I don’t want to see much of this on LW, and I don’t want to encourage others that LW is a place to find this topic. But I don’t hate having a small amount of high-quality questionably-relevant-to-LW content.
There’s not direct rationality commentary in the post, but there’s plenty of other posts on LW that also aren’t direct rationality commentary (for example, a large majority of posts here about COVID-19). I think that this post is a good fit because it provides tools for understanding this conflict and others like it, which I didn’t possess before and now somewhat do.
It’s not directly relevant to my life, but that’s fine. I imagine that for some here it might actually be relevant, because of connections through things like effective altruism (maybe it helps grant makers decide where to send funds to aid the Sudanese people?).