LW is a public website existing in a conflict-theorist world. My impression is discussions on this subject and various others are doomed to be “fake” in the sense that important considerations will be left out, and will provide material for critics to misrepresent as being typical of rationalists. If I recall correctly, a somewhat similar thread on LW 1.0 (I can’t immediately find it, but it involved someone being on fire as a metaphor) turned into a major blow-up that people left the site over. I don’t see any upside to outweigh these downsides. Maybe there’s honor in being able to handle this, but if we can’t handle this, then that doesn’t mean it will help to act as if we can.
LW is a public website existing in a conflict-theorist world. My impression is discussions on this subject and various others are doomed to be “fake” in the sense that important considerations will be left out, and will provide material for critics to misrepresent as being typical of rationalists. If I recall correctly, a somewhat similar thread on LW 1.0 (I can’t immediately find it, but it involved someone being on fire as a metaphor) turned into a major blow-up that people left the site over. I don’t see any upside to outweigh these downsides. Maybe there’s honor in being able to handle this, but if we can’t handle this, then that doesn’t mean it will help to act as if we can.