LW protip: in order to get a lot of upvotes, find political threads and post comments that imply that US government and liberal academia are fabricating facts and spreading propaganda. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do any dirty work and figure out if in that particular case it is correct or not, it doesn’t matter. You might need to wait a few days, but eventually you’ll receive a bunch of upvotes, all coming in a very short period of time.
I for one would appreciate it if the discussions of geopolitics, immigration policy, monetary policy, factional and sectional politics, adherence to various national leaders — and anything else about “Us vs. Them” where “Us” and “Them” are defined by which section of Spaceship Earth the parties happen to have spawned in, — would kindly fuck off back to the comments sections of newspaper websites or some other appropriate forums.
The idea of LW as an explicitly Enlightenment project, one that actually contemplates ideas such as “the coherent extrapolated volition of humankind,” “applying the discovery of biases to improve our thinking,” and “refining the art of human rationality,” is something rare and valuable.
Yet another politics comment section, another outrage amplifier, is not.
Rational debate is so hard to find these days, we have to protect it. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that US government and liberal academia are fabricating facts and spreading propaganda, just to create conflicts among people who merely happened to be born in different cultures or subgroups. I will not post specific examples, to avoid mindkilling, but you probably know what I mean. We should not take part in this insanity.
LW protip: in order to get a lot of upvotes, find political threads and post comments that imply that US government and liberal academia are fabricating facts and spreading propaganda. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do any dirty work and figure out if in that particular case it is correct or not, it doesn’t matter. You might need to wait a few days, but eventually you’ll receive a bunch of upvotes, all coming in a very short period of time.
Wasn’t there a less passive-aggressive way of expressing this complaint, or a more appropriate context for it?
Please link to a few examples of where this has been successful.
I for one would appreciate it if the discussions of geopolitics, immigration policy, monetary policy, factional and sectional politics, adherence to various national leaders — and anything else about “Us vs. Them” where “Us” and “Them” are defined by which section of Spaceship Earth the parties happen to have spawned in, — would kindly fuck off back to the comments sections of newspaper websites or some other appropriate forums.
The idea of LW as an explicitly Enlightenment project, one that actually contemplates ideas such as “the coherent extrapolated volition of humankind,” “applying the discovery of biases to improve our thinking,” and “refining the art of human rationality,” is something rare and valuable.
Yet another politics comment section, another outrage amplifier, is not.
Rational debate is so hard to find these days, we have to protect it. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that US government and liberal academia are fabricating facts and spreading propaganda, just to create conflicts among people who merely happened to be born in different cultures or subgroups. I will not post specific examples, to avoid mindkilling, but you probably know what I mean. We should not take part in this insanity.
(Am I doing this right?)