Me too, but the community leaders (of which Aella is one) have legitimized it. I think the LW leadership is pretty diffuse and there isn’t a clear power center (would Eliezer really come out criticizing Aella for influencing an ongoing issue like this? I doubt it.) so if anything it’ll happen more often.
I don’t really know what you can do here and I think the best thing is to actually slowly move your work off this forum and onto somewhere where you trust the moderation team (e.g. my original account blueiris was banned 6 hours ago without warning purely for the comments on this post). We’re in a different world now.
That would be individual’s own blogs. I’m at the point now where I don’t really trust any centralized moderation team. I’ve watched some form of the principal agent problem happen with moderation repeatedly in most communities I’ve been a part of.
I think the centralization of LessWrong was one of many mistakes the rationalist community made.
I think the centralization of LessWrong was one of many mistakes the rationalist community made.
The rationalist community is not very certralized. People like Scott Alexander switched from writing their main posts on LessWrong and made their own blogs. Most of what EY writes these days is not on LessWrong either.
A lot of the conversations are happening on Facebook, Twitter, Slack and Discord channels.
Me too, but the community leaders (of which Aella is one) have legitimized it. I think the LW leadership is pretty diffuse and there isn’t a clear power center (would Eliezer really come out criticizing Aella for influencing an ongoing issue like this? I doubt it.) so if anything it’ll happen more often.
I don’t really know what you can do here and I think the best thing is to actually slowly move your work off this forum and onto somewhere where you trust the moderation team (e.g. my original account blueiris was banned 6 hours ago without warning purely for the comments on this post). We’re in a different world now.
That would be individual’s own blogs. I’m at the point now where I don’t really trust any centralized moderation team. I’ve watched some form of the principal agent problem happen with moderation repeatedly in most communities I’ve been a part of.
I think the centralization of LessWrong was one of many mistakes the rationalist community made.
The rationalist community is not very certralized. People like Scott Alexander switched from writing their main posts on LessWrong and made their own blogs. Most of what EY writes these days is not on LessWrong either.
A lot of the conversations are happening on Facebook, Twitter, Slack and Discord channels.