Hi gworley! I’ve moved this post off the frontpage and back to your personal user blog. This post is an edge case as it has some fine and interesting ideas in it; the reason I’ve moved it is because it reads to me as a post for which being interested in and able to understand all of it requires having a social connection to the rationality community and knowledge of its history (in particular, the last two paragraphs of the post, and thus much of the discussion that ensued). In general the frontpage is for discussion of interesting ideas, not for things like news, recent events, social coordination, or announcements (check out the frontpage content guidelines for more info).
Hi gworley! I’ve moved this post off the frontpage and back to your personal user blog. This post is an edge case as it has some fine and interesting ideas in it; the reason I’ve moved it is because it reads to me as a post for which being interested in and able to understand all of it requires having a social connection to the rationality community and knowledge of its history (in particular, the last two paragraphs of the post, and thus much of the discussion that ensued). In general the frontpage is for discussion of interesting ideas, not for things like news, recent events, social coordination, or announcements (check out the frontpage content guidelines for more info).