It seems weird to include a post in the book if we believe that it is misguided, just because people historically believed it. If I were making this book, I would not include such posts; I’d want an “LW Review” to focus on things that are true and useful, rather than historically interesting.
That being said, I haven’t thought much about the goals of the book, and if we want to include posts for the sake of history, then sure, include the post. That was just not my impression about the goal.
Is your concern that people will see this in the Alignment section, and not see the arguments against the connection, and continue to be misled?
I would have this concern, yes, but I’m happy to defer (in the sense of “not pushing”, rather than the sense of “adopting their beliefs as my own”) to the opinions of the people who have thought way more than me about the purpose of this review and the book, and have caused it to happen. If they are interested in including historically important essays that we now think are misguided, I wouldn’t object. I predict that they would prefer not to include such essays but of course I could be wrong about that.
It seems weird to include a post in the book if we believe that it is misguided, just because people historically believed it. If I were making this book, I would not include such posts; I’d want an “LW Review” to focus on things that are true and useful, rather than historically interesting.
That being said, I haven’t thought much about the goals of the book, and if we want to include posts for the sake of history, then sure, include the post. That was just not my impression about the goal.
I would have this concern, yes, but I’m happy to defer (in the sense of “not pushing”, rather than the sense of “adopting their beliefs as my own”) to the opinions of the people who have thought way more than me about the purpose of this review and the book, and have caused it to happen. If they are interested in including historically important essays that we now think are misguided, I wouldn’t object. I predict that they would prefer not to include such essays but of course I could be wrong about that.