LessWrong never had a strict no-politics rule. It has a norm of “if you speak about politics put in the effort”. In this case, I did this by searching for a lot of sources and limiting myself to Western sources for my main post.
When I was speaking about non-Western sources in the comments I did it with the appropriate disclaimers of “I’m not certain that this is true, but this is a claim out there”. This kind of distinguishing of the epistemic status is also something that comes out of putting effort into it.
LessWrong never had a strict no-politics rule. It has a norm of “if you speak about politics put in the effort”. In this case, I did this by searching for a lot of sources and limiting myself to Western sources for my main post.
When I was speaking about non-Western sources in the comments I did it with the appropriate disclaimers of “I’m not certain that this is true, but this is a claim out there”. This kind of distinguishing of the epistemic status is also something that comes out of putting effort into it.