Not to attack you, but I quit reading political subreddits because it was making me unhappy. If this kind of thing becomes common on LW, it’ll be less fun for me.
My guess is that LW can handle political discussions better than a typical subreddit. Past “political” discussions led to posts like The Nature of Offense, which I know you liked. Another thing is that as x-risk concerns spread into the wider world, it’s going to come into conflict with other value systems (see this example) and it seems like we need a place to talk about that at least. But I would support putting political discussions into a “subreddit” here or use a tagging system to allow users to filter them out.
Not to attack you, but I quit reading political subreddits because it was making me unhappy. If this kind of thing becomes common on LW, it’ll be less fun for me.
My guess is that LW can handle political discussions better than a typical subreddit. Past “political” discussions led to posts like The Nature of Offense, which I know you liked. Another thing is that as x-risk concerns spread into the wider world, it’s going to come into conflict with other value systems (see this example) and it seems like we need a place to talk about that at least. But I would support putting political discussions into a “subreddit” here or use a tagging system to allow users to filter them out.