I maybe want to specify-in-my-words the version of this I’m most enthusiastic about, to check that you in fact think this version of the thing is fine, rather than a perversion of rationality that should die-in-a-fire and/or not solve any problems you care about:
There are two clusters of norms people choose between. Both emphasize truthseeking, but have different standards for some flavor of politeness, how much effort critics are supposed to put in, Combat vs Nurture, etc. Authors pick a default setting but can change setting for individual posts.
Probably even the more-combaty-one has some kind of floor for basic politeness (you probably don’t want to be literal 4chan?) but not at a level you’d expect to come up very often on LessWrong.
I think the precious thing lost in the Nurture cluster is not Combat, but tolerance for or even encouragement of unapologetic and uncompromising dissent. This is straightforwardly good if it can be instantiated without regularly spawning infinite threads of back-and-forth arguing (unapologetic and uncompromising).
It should be convenient for people who don’t want to participate in that to opt out, and the details of this seem to be the most challenging issue.
Hmmm. I… do not think that this version of the thing is fine.
(I may write more later to elaborate on why I think that. Or maybe this isn’t the ideal place to do that? But I did want to answer your question here, at least.)
Nod. Since it somewhat informs the solution space I’m considering, I think I’ll go ahead and ask here what seem not-fine about it. (Or, maybe to resolve a thing I’m actually confused about, what seems different about this phrasing from what Caerulea said?)
I maybe want to specify-in-my-words the version of this I’m most enthusiastic about, to check that you in fact think this version of the thing is fine, rather than a perversion of rationality that should die-in-a-fire and/or not solve any problems you care about:
There are two clusters of norms people choose between. Both emphasize truthseeking, but have different standards for some flavor of politeness, how much effort critics are supposed to put in, Combat vs Nurture, etc. Authors pick a default setting but can change setting for individual posts.
Probably even the more-combaty-one has some kind of floor for basic politeness (you probably don’t want to be literal 4chan?) but not at a level you’d expect to come up very often on LessWrong.
There might be different moderators for each one.
Does that sound basically good to you?
I think the precious thing lost in the Nurture cluster is not Combat, but tolerance for or even encouragement of unapologetic and uncompromising dissent. This is straightforwardly good if it can be instantiated without regularly spawning infinite threads of back-and-forth arguing (unapologetic and uncompromising).
It should be convenient for people who don’t want to participate in that to opt out, and the details of this seem to be the most challenging issue.
Hmmm. I… do not think that this version of the thing is fine.
(I may write more later to elaborate on why I think that. Or maybe this isn’t the ideal place to do that? But I did want to answer your question here, at least.)
Nod. Since it somewhat informs the solution space I’m considering, I think I’ll go ahead and ask here what seem not-fine about it. (Or, maybe to resolve a thing I’m actually confused about, what seems different about this phrasing from what Caerulea said?)