By now there’s more comments than I can easily read, but leaving this here for “tallying up preferences” purposes. Most important point is A:
A) I expect sex to have very strong and weird impacts on epistemology (for similar reasons to why politics does). I think it’s actually pretty bad that we haven’t talked about that in more detail. Epistemology is weakest and weirdest when sex and power are on the line.
I think Ozy’s recent post, among the recent 2.0 posts, contained the most novel and important considerations for epistemology (probably tied with some of Connor Moreton’s material). [Specifically, the “things people do in private are most vulnerable to typical mind fallacy and secret diversity]
B) That said, we may not want it on the front page for the same reason we don’t want politics there. It ends up being an attractor for things that lead us down an incentive gradient we don’t like.
C) I share Ozy’s concern that it’s in fact pretty bad that teenagers don’t get to learn much about sex until it’s too late.
D) I do think the “informal crassness” of the post is a marked departure from the LW Overton window. I think it’s debatable whether that’s bad, but it sounds like Ozy was fine with toning that down, and I don’t think anything particularly important would be lost.
I think academic discussion of some sex-related-topics (i.e. STIs) on the front page could be done totally reasonably.
By now there’s more comments than I can easily read, but leaving this here for “tallying up preferences” purposes. Most important point is A:
A) I expect sex to have very strong and weird impacts on epistemology (for similar reasons to why politics does). I think it’s actually pretty bad that we haven’t talked about that in more detail. Epistemology is weakest and weirdest when sex and power are on the line.
I think Ozy’s recent post, among the recent 2.0 posts, contained the most novel and important considerations for epistemology (probably tied with some of Connor Moreton’s material). [Specifically, the “things people do in private are most vulnerable to typical mind fallacy and secret diversity]
B) That said, we may not want it on the front page for the same reason we don’t want politics there. It ends up being an attractor for things that lead us down an incentive gradient we don’t like.
C) I share Ozy’s concern that it’s in fact pretty bad that teenagers don’t get to learn much about sex until it’s too late.
D) I do think the “informal crassness” of the post is a marked departure from the LW Overton window. I think it’s debatable whether that’s bad, but it sounds like Ozy was fine with toning that down, and I don’t think anything particularly important would be lost.
I think academic discussion of some sex-related-topics (i.e. STIs) on the front page could be done totally reasonably.