I think that Scott’s recent tweets on this topic have actually been sort of unreasonable and impolite.
LessWrong serves as the public square for the AI safety community
Yes, if the proposal was to ban Scott from LessWrong I’d be much more opposed than if it was to (perhaps! this probably won’t even happen!) not host ACX meetups for free.
I think it is has been net positive for people to begin having earnest conversations about their real reasons for things in public rather than filter everything through a particular discourse norms filter that in practice means people don’t share their real reasons.
I think that Scott’s recent tweets on this topic have actually been sort of unreasonable and impolite.
Yes, if the proposal was to ban Scott from LessWrong I’d be much more opposed than if it was to (perhaps! this probably won’t even happen!) not host ACX meetups for free.
I think it is has been net positive for people to begin having earnest conversations about their real reasons for things in public rather than filter everything through a particular discourse norms filter that in practice means people don’t share their real reasons.