Personally, that seems to me to draw the right line. Discussion of (say) economics or alternate voting procedures, while clearly political, also feel to me like useful rationality content. On the other hand, a post about race or gender or Donald Trump would have to be really exceptional to be worthwhile.
I agree with ozymandias’s comment. I don’t expect the amount of political discussion on LessWrong to increase; there have been a few great posts that can be called political on this site (the first three that come to my mind are by Eliezer, Scott, and Hallquist), but these each navigate fairly well around causing the commenters to feel like (and read others as) soldiers for a side, and don’t get heated as a result. And most importantly, they also make really good points.
Yes—these are guidelines for posts and comments.
As to (2) I basically agree and will do something about this in the coming weeks.
Personally, that seems to me to draw the right line. Discussion of (say) economics or alternate voting procedures, while clearly political, also feel to me like useful rationality content. On the other hand, a post about race or gender or Donald Trump would have to be really exceptional to be worthwhile.
I agree with ozymandias’s comment. I don’t expect the amount of political discussion on LessWrong to increase; there have been a few great posts that can be called political on this site (the first three that come to my mind are by Eliezer, Scott, and Hallquist), but these each navigate fairly well around causing the commenters to feel like (and read others as) soldiers for a side, and don’t get heated as a result. And most importantly, they also make really good points.
Yes—these are guidelines for posts and comments.
As to (2) I basically agree and will do something about this in the coming weeks.