I am on the other side of the world from some government-reorganising event in some country that I had to google just to figure out what the first sentence of this post was about.
First up: This should not be on Lesswrong.
Second up: more context needed if you want to teach me something useful here.
Third up: This writer on lesswrong once suggested that if you want to talk about politics, don’t use current affairs examples...
The fact that you had to google Catalonia to see what the episode is about suggests that the political pressure of being Blue or Red isn’t strong in this example.
Adding to what @lahwran said. One of the reasons why behind the Great Less Wrong Collapse was that everyone moved to their own blogs and areas. Part of the reason was that some people wanted to write about politics or write more casual posts where they relax their epistemic standards, ect. So the blog feature was created to bring them back onto the website, but for this to work people had to be able to post the things that they would have normally posted on their own site. I think though that there needs to be a better way to visually distinguish between blog posts and the frontpage.
If you look at the Frontpage Posting and Commenting Guidelines, you’ll see that: “Note that this guide doesn’t apply to your personal LW blog—you can do whatever you like there. This post talks about the norms and epistemic standards encouraged on the frontpage of LessWrong”.
This isn’t on the main board, it’s just in his personal blog section. People saw it in their new post notifications (that’s where I saw it) or possibly other places, but it isn’t in Frontpage Posts.
I predict the moderation team will be fine with it because it discusses the reasoning behind the points. I’m not sure, though, and I agree that this is less of a LessWrong Thing(tm) and more of just a blog post, like he has been posting on facebook lately. I think it’s good that he posted one of these somewhere besides facebook.
To explain a little further: I think of the frontpage more like a physics journal than hacker news; the ideas should build, and be able to be built upon, rather than relevant for just a few weeks.
In particular, this post was an edge case, and almost a fit for the front, as it used recent events to discuss some general points about how people respond to the news. However, to read this post you totally need a bunch of recent knowledge, and so it won’t be readable in two weeks.
But yup, totally fine and dandy for someone’s personal LW blog.
Boo politics. I don’t care who you are—People go funny in the head when talking about politics.
I am on the other side of the world from some government-reorganising event in some country that I had to google just to figure out what the first sentence of this post was about.
First up: This should not be on Lesswrong.
Second up: more context needed if you want to teach me something useful here.
Third up: This writer on lesswrong once suggested that if you want to talk about politics, don’t use current affairs examples...
The fact that you had to google Catalonia to see what the episode is about suggests that the political pressure of being Blue or Red isn’t strong in this example.
This was an insight I found keen.
Adding to what @lahwran said. One of the reasons why behind the Great Less Wrong Collapse was that everyone moved to their own blogs and areas. Part of the reason was that some people wanted to write about politics or write more casual posts where they relax their epistemic standards, ect. So the blog feature was created to bring them back onto the website, but for this to work people had to be able to post the things that they would have normally posted on their own site. I think though that there needs to be a better way to visually distinguish between blog posts and the frontpage.
If you look at the Frontpage Posting and Commenting Guidelines, you’ll see that: “Note that this guide doesn’t apply to your personal LW blog—you can do whatever you like there. This post talks about the norms and epistemic standards encouraged on the frontpage of LessWrong”.
This isn’t on the main board, it’s just in his personal blog section. People saw it in their new post notifications (that’s where I saw it) or possibly other places, but it isn’t in Frontpage Posts.
I predict the moderation team will be fine with it because it discusses the reasoning behind the points. I’m not sure, though, and I agree that this is less of a LessWrong Thing(tm) and more of just a blog post, like he has been posting on facebook lately. I think it’s good that he posted one of these somewhere besides facebook.
I affirm Chris_Leong’s and lahwren’s replies.
To explain a little further: I think of the frontpage more like a physics journal than hacker news; the ideas should build, and be able to be built upon, rather than relevant for just a few weeks.
In particular, this post was an edge case, and almost a fit for the front, as it used recent events to discuss some general points about how people respond to the news. However, to read this post you totally need a bunch of recent knowledge, and so it won’t be readable in two weeks.
But yup, totally fine and dandy for someone’s personal LW blog.