This is an otherwise valuable discussion that I’d rather not have on LW, for the standard reasons; it seems a bit to close to the partisan side of the policy/partisanship political discussion divide. I recognize I wrote a comment in reaction to yours (shame on me), and so you were fully within your rights to respond, but I’d rather stop it here.
Fwiw I feel a bit confused about whether this conversation is bad. (locally, it seemed fine so far, and the main reason it might not be fine is that politics attracts more politics which attracts people-into-politics)
In my ideal world, LW talks about politics, but always in a kind of practical, gearsy modeling way that has internalized the lessons of the LessWrong Political Prerequisites sequence.
Maybe we should make political threads require you to log in and/or have at least 1 karma to see them.
This discussion felt fine to me, though I’m not sure to which extent anyone got convinced of anything, so it might have been fine but not necessarily worthwhile, or something. Anyway, I’m also in favor of people being able to disengage from conversations without that becoming a meta discussion of its own, so… *shrugs*.
I do agree that it’s easy to have discussions about politics become bad, even on LW.
This is an otherwise valuable discussion that I’d rather not have on LW, for the standard reasons; it seems a bit to close to the partisan side of the policy/partisanship political discussion divide. I recognize I wrote a comment in reaction to yours (shame on me), and so you were fully within your rights to respond, but I’d rather stop it here.
Fwiw I feel a bit confused about whether this conversation is bad. (locally, it seemed fine so far, and the main reason it might not be fine is that politics attracts more politics which attracts people-into-politics)
In my ideal world, LW talks about politics, but always in a kind of practical, gearsy modeling way that has internalized the lessons of the LessWrong Political Prerequisites sequence.
Maybe we should make political threads require you to log in and/or have at least 1 karma to see them.
This discussion felt fine to me, though I’m not sure to which extent anyone got convinced of anything, so it might have been fine but not necessarily worthwhile, or something. Anyway, I’m also in favor of people being able to disengage from conversations without that becoming a meta discussion of its own, so… *shrugs*.
I do agree that it’s easy to have discussions about politics become bad, even on LW.