Avoiding the tribalism doesn’t mean avoiding all the object-level bits of reality the tribes are interested in.
It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say “we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians” and then LessWrong doesn’t discuss X anymore.
It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say “we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians” and then LessWrong doesn’t discuss X anymore.
I never said we couldn’t have political discussions about X. What I said was don’t use X as an example when making a non-political point.
Avoiding the tribalism doesn’t mean avoiding all the object-level bits of reality the tribes are interested in.
It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say “we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians” and then LessWrong doesn’t discuss X anymore.
I never said we couldn’t have political discussions about X. What I said was don’t use X as an example when making a non-political point.