I was not personally offended by your example post and upvoted it just now. I probably at least wouldn’t have downvoted it had I seen it earlier, but I hadn’t.
lsusr’s example post seemed to not be a specific deviant idea though. To paraphrase one point: beware of banning apparent falsity lest you inadvertently ban true heresies, without naming any heresy in particular.
Many readers appeared to dislike my example post. IIRC, prior to mentioning it here, it’s karma (excluding my auto hard upvote) was close to zero, despite it having about 40 votes.
Hmm, is LessWrong really so intolerant of being reminded of the existence of “deviant ideas”?
Social Dark Matter was pretty well received, with 248 karma, and was posted quite recently.
The much older KOLMOGOROV COMPLICITY AND THE PARABLE OF LIGHTNING opened with a quote from the same Paul Graham essay you linked to (What You Can’t Say).
I was not personally offended by your example post and upvoted it just now. I probably at least wouldn’t have downvoted it had I seen it earlier, but I hadn’t.
People love deviant ideas in abstract, hate to deal with specific deviant ideas that attack beliefs they hold dear.
lsusr’s example post seemed to not be a specific deviant idea though. To paraphrase one point: beware of banning apparent falsity lest you inadvertently ban true heresies, without naming any heresy in particular.
Many readers appeared to dislike my example post. IIRC, prior to mentioning it here, it’s karma (excluding my auto hard upvote) was close to zero, despite it having about 40 votes.