This is a great idea. We should create rationalist blogs for other political factions too, such as progressivism, feminism, anarchism, green politics and others. Such efforts could bring our programme of “raising the sanity waterline” to the public policy sphere—and this might even lay some of the groundwork for eventually relaxing the “no politics at LW” rule.
I don’t expect LessWrong itself to become a good venue to discuss politics. I do think LessWrong could keep its spot at the center of a “rationalist” blogosphere that may be slowly growing. Discussions between different value systems part of it might actually be worth following! And I do think nearly all political factions within such a blogosphere would find benefits in keeping their norms as sanity friendly as possible.
Yes, the issue-position-argument (IPA) model was developed for such purposes, and similar models are widely cited in the academic literature about argumentation and computer support for same, etc. (One very useful elaboration of this is called TIPAESA, for: time, issue, position, argument, evidence, source, authority. Unfortunately, I do not know of a good reference for this model; it seems that it was only developed informally, by anonymous folks on some political wikis.) But it’s still useful to have separately managed sites for each political faction, if only so that each faction can develop highly representative descriptions of their own positions.
This is a great idea. We should create rationalist blogs for other political factions too, such as progressivism, feminism, anarchism, green politics and others. Such efforts could bring our programme of “raising the sanity waterline” to the public policy sphere—and this might even lay some of the groundwork for eventually relaxing the “no politics at LW” rule.
As I wrote before:
I don’t expect LessWrong itself to become a good venue to discuss politics. I do think LessWrong could keep its spot at the center of a “rationalist” blogosphere that may be slowly growing. Discussions between different value systems part of it might actually be worth following! And I do think nearly all political factions within such a blogosphere would find benefits in keeping their norms as sanity friendly as possible.
I would like to see one site to describe them all. To describe all those parts which can be defended rationally, with clear explanations and evidence.
Yes, the issue-position-argument (IPA) model was developed for such purposes, and similar models are widely cited in the academic literature about argumentation and computer support for same, etc. (One very useful elaboration of this is called TIPAESA, for: time, issue, position, argument, evidence, source, authority. Unfortunately, I do not know of a good reference for this model; it seems that it was only developed informally, by anonymous folks on some political wikis.) But it’s still useful to have separately managed sites for each political faction, if only so that each faction can develop highly representative descriptions of their own positions.