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.
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.