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.
It would help if the no politics rule was real and consistently enforced.
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.