I do think this concern is right and appropriate to raise. I didn’t include that section lightly, but didn’t feel like I had a choice given the situation. I did realize that there was a cost to doing it.
As habryka says, these are written for my personal blog, and reposted to LessWrong automatically. I am happy that the community gets use out of them, but they are not designed for the front page of LessWrong or its norms. They couldn’t be anyway, because time sensitive stuff is not front page material.
I don’t believe I made contentious claims on non-Covid topics. But to the extent that I did do that, no one saying you have to accept them or agree with them. But I do not think discussion in comments would be productive—only bad things would likely happen if one started—and I’m setting norms to that effect.
I agree that politics is the mindkiller and so I make every effort to avoid it whenever possible even when not trying to abide by LW norms. Unless things that I consider very low probability to happen, happen, the issue won’t come up again.
I think it would be both more effective and more LessWrong-norm-ish to argue that there was no widespread election fraud rather than claim that there was no widespread election fraud. Like, describe and refute specific claims, or at least tell readers that you dug into them before dismissing them (I assume you did). It only takes a sentence or two! You link to the best arguments on both sides, and then say you read them both, and this one checks out, and that one is full of easily-refuted lies and confusions. Or whatever. Otherwise what’s the point? Most of your audience already agrees with you, the rest will assume you’re just another sucker who blindly trusts the lamestream media… :-P
these are written for my personal blog, and reposted to LessWrong automatically
What happens if you update the article on your website? Is it reimported automatically?
Is it possible to edit the imported article afterwards?
Would it makes sense to support HTML tags like <div class=”lesswrong-exclude”>...</div>? (Probably only useful for people who edit the HTML code manually; not possible in WYSIWYG editors.)
It needs to be reimported, it does not automatically update. If I change only a few words it is easy to fix twice, but more than that I have them do a reimport.
I do think this concern is right and appropriate to raise. I didn’t include that section lightly, but didn’t feel like I had a choice given the situation. I did realize that there was a cost to doing it.
As habryka says, these are written for my personal blog, and reposted to LessWrong automatically. I am happy that the community gets use out of them, but they are not designed for the front page of LessWrong or its norms. They couldn’t be anyway, because time sensitive stuff is not front page material.
I don’t believe I made contentious claims on non-Covid topics. But to the extent that I did do that, no one saying you have to accept them or agree with them. But I do not think discussion in comments would be productive—only bad things would likely happen if one started—and I’m setting norms to that effect.
I agree that politics is the mindkiller and so I make every effort to avoid it whenever possible even when not trying to abide by LW norms. Unless things that I consider very low probability to happen, happen, the issue won’t come up again.
I think it would be both more effective and more LessWrong-norm-ish to argue that there was no widespread election fraud rather than claim that there was no widespread election fraud. Like, describe and refute specific claims, or at least tell readers that you dug into them before dismissing them (I assume you did). It only takes a sentence or two! You link to the best arguments on both sides, and then say you read them both, and this one checks out, and that one is full of easily-refuted lies and confusions. Or whatever. Otherwise what’s the point? Most of your audience already agrees with you, the rest will assume you’re just another sucker who blindly trusts the lamestream media… :-P
What happens if you update the article on your website? Is it reimported automatically?
Is it possible to edit the imported article afterwards?
Would it makes sense to support HTML tags like <div class=”lesswrong-exclude”>...</div>? (Probably only useful for people who edit the HTML code manually; not possible in WYSIWYG editors.)
It needs to be reimported, it does not automatically update. If I change only a few words it is easy to fix twice, but more than that I have them do a reimport.