I don’t think articles like this belong on Less Wrong, so I downvoted it. Presumably the author agrees, to some extent, or he wouldn’t have felt the need to pre-apologize. If people disagree with me, they are of course free to upvote it.
Also, the article in question was posted in October of 2020. Why bring it up now? It’s not like we can do anything about it.
I don’t think these articles should make up a high proportion of the content on Less Wrong, but I think it’s good if things like this are occasionally discussed.
I agree that things like this should be discussed, but the question is how. Mere link might be okay for something that is urgent… where the trade-off is between posting the bare link and procrastinating to write something more.
But if it is 4 years old, then we don’t need to hurry, and if you want to have a debate, perhaps you could start by writing your opinion on what happened, and maybe add some more context.
(Also, I think it would be nice to make the fact that it is 4 years old more visible.)
So basically in my opinion the topic is okay, but this way you introduced it is not.
I don’t think articles like this belong on Less Wrong, so I downvoted it. Presumably the author agrees, to some extent, or he wouldn’t have felt the need to pre-apologize. If people disagree with me, they are of course free to upvote it.
Also, the article in question was posted in October of 2020. Why bring it up now? It’s not like we can do anything about it.
I don’t think these articles should make up a high proportion of the content on Less Wrong, but I think it’s good if things like this are occasionally discussed.
I agree that things like this should be discussed, but the question is how. Mere link might be okay for something that is urgent… where the trade-off is between posting the bare link and procrastinating to write something more.
But if it is 4 years old, then we don’t need to hurry, and if you want to have a debate, perhaps you could start by writing your opinion on what happened, and maybe add some more context.
(Also, I think it would be nice to make the fact that it is 4 years old more visible.)
So basically in my opinion the topic is okay, but this way you introduced it is not.