Ya know, it’s people like you what cause people to spend their lives silent and paralyzed by indecision for fear of making a single social error that they will never be allowed to correct.
On a related note, I am very pleased thus far with Eliezer’s performance as Less Wrong dictator. I very much doubt that the quality of discourse would be this high if he didn’t decide to ban the mention of The Topics that Must Not be Named or warn against engaging in discussion of mind-killing things like politics.
Either you are committing the fundamental attribution error or I am suffering from WYSIATI.
On a related note, I am very pleased thus far with Eliezer’s performance as Less Wrong dictator. I very much doubt that the quality of discourse would be this high if he didn’t decide to ban the mention of The Topics that Must Not be Named or warn against engaging in discussion of mind-killing things like politics.