I think all you’re missing is words like “lotus” and “hijacked” have developed connotations on LessWrong which aren’t as harsh as the basic connotations of those words used outside the context of LW, and that it’s those connotations Val sought to bring to mind in his post, and not that of hijacking planes or the Odyssey.
I think all you’re missing is words like “lotus” and “hijacked” have developed connotations on LessWrong which aren’t as harsh as the basic connotations of those words used outside the context of LW, and that it’s those connotations Val sought to bring to mind in his post, and not that of hijacking planes or the Odyssey.
Oh. Can you give me some links to that?