Note the current setup is “ban and do so potentially for content a year old” and no feedback as to the specific user content that was the reason.
There’s dozens of reasons possible. Also note how the site moderators choose not to give any feedback but instead choose effectively useless vague statements that can be applied to any content or no content. See above the one from Habryka. It matches anything and nothing. See all the conditionals including “I am actually very unsure this criticism is even true” and “I am unwilling to give any clarification or specifics”. And see the one on “I don’t think you are at the level of your interlocutor” without specifying + or -.
Literally any piece of text matches the rules given and also fails to match.
As a result of this,
The good path would be those more passionate, informed and thoughtful learn to adjust their communications skills and keep a check on their emotional response.
Is outside the range of possible outcomes.
Big picture wise, almost all social media attempts die. Reddit/Facebook/Twitter et al are the natural monopoly winners and there are thousands of losers. This is just an experiment, the 2.0 attempt, and I have to respect the site moderators and owner for trying something new.
Their true policy is not to give feedback but to ban essentially everyone but a small elite set of “niche” contributors who often happen to agree with each other already, so sending empty strings at each other is the same as writing a huge post yet again arguing the same ground.
I think my concluding thought is that this creates a situation of essentially intellectual sandcastles. A large quantity is things that sound intelligent, are built on unproven assumptions that sound correct, and occupy a lot of text to describe and ultimately are useless.
A dumber sounding, simpler idea based on strong empirical evidence, using usually the simplest possible theory to explain it, is almost always going to be the least wrong. (And the correct policy is to only add complexity to a theory when strong replicable evidence can’t be explained without adding the complexity)
I think the site name should be GreaterWrong, just now miri is about stopping machine intelligence research, openAI is closed, and so on.
Note the current setup is “ban and do so potentially for content a year old” and no feedback as to the specific user content that was the reason.
There’s dozens of reasons possible. Also note how the site moderators choose not to give any feedback but instead choose effectively useless vague statements that can be applied to any content or no content. See above the one from Habryka. It matches anything and nothing. See all the conditionals including “I am actually very unsure this criticism is even true” and “I am unwilling to give any clarification or specifics”. And see the one on “I don’t think you are at the level of your interlocutor” without specifying + or -.
Literally any piece of text matches the rules given and also fails to match.
As a result of this,
Is outside the range of possible outcomes.
Big picture wise, almost all social media attempts die. Reddit/Facebook/Twitter et al are the natural monopoly winners and there are thousands of losers. This is just an experiment, the 2.0 attempt, and I have to respect the site moderators and owner for trying something new.
Their true policy is not to give feedback but to ban essentially everyone but a small elite set of “niche” contributors who often happen to agree with each other already, so sending empty strings at each other is the same as writing a huge post yet again arguing the same ground.
I think my concluding thought is that this creates a situation of essentially intellectual sandcastles. A large quantity is things that sound intelligent, are built on unproven assumptions that sound correct, and occupy a lot of text to describe and ultimately are useless.
A dumber sounding, simpler idea based on strong empirical evidence, using usually the simplest possible theory to explain it, is almost always going to be the least wrong. (And the correct policy is to only add complexity to a theory when strong replicable evidence can’t be explained without adding the complexity)
I think the site name should be GreaterWrong, just now miri is about stopping machine intelligence research, openAI is closed, and so on.