You say “the political sentiment of lesswrong” and “persuade on politics”; if we replace “politics” with “a model of world affairs” or “a view about the state of the world’s main decisionmaking institutions” or the like, that changes my intuitive response to your comment a fair bit.
There are risks to talking about world affairs or the state of the US government on LW, and the risks may outweigh the benefits. But in a relatively utopian version of LW, at least, in a world where it was possible to do so without a bunch of bad side-effects, I think there would be a lot of curated “politics” content in the sense of “content that aids in understanding the current state of the world and its institutions”, even though there are other interpretations of “politics” according to which politics doesn’t belong on the LW front page.
In this utopian version of LW, I think some curated posts would focus on defending models, while others would focus on presenting new models for evaluation or summarizing previously-defended models.
(This abstract point seems more important to me than the question of whether Zvi’s post in particular would be curated in utopian-LW.)
You say “the political sentiment of lesswrong” and “persuade on politics”; if we replace “politics” with “a model of world affairs” or “a view about the state of the world’s main decisionmaking institutions” or the like, that changes my intuitive response to your comment a fair bit.
There are risks to talking about world affairs or the state of the US government on LW, and the risks may outweigh the benefits. But in a relatively utopian version of LW, at least, in a world where it was possible to do so without a bunch of bad side-effects, I think there would be a lot of curated “politics” content in the sense of “content that aids in understanding the current state of the world and its institutions”, even though there are other interpretations of “politics” according to which politics doesn’t belong on the LW front page.
In this utopian version of LW, I think some curated posts would focus on defending models, while others would focus on presenting new models for evaluation or summarizing previously-defended models.
(This abstract point seems more important to me than the question of whether Zvi’s post in particular would be curated in utopian-LW.)
I think I agree to all of what you say, except that I am unsure whether it is about what I wrote.