I think you are misunderstanding me, and I’d like to clarify some things.
I did not read the great-grandparent as a dog whistle. I did not and do not think that paperoli’s use of the term NPC indicates that they are alt-right. I think that it will indicate to other people that they are alt-right.
My politics-detector is not being used to directly indicate “do I like this?” to me. Rather, I am using it as a proxy for “will people in general dislike this?”, combined with the knowledge that certain political standpoints are very costly to seem to hold.
I only brought up the political aspect because I saw the alt-right as being relevant to LW in that we should be trying, with some nonzero amount of effort, to avoid being associated strongly with them. As a result, I considered “avoid comments like this” to be a net positive action. I am now less certain that it’s worth the cost, but I think it was worth stating that the alternative (ignoring terminological overlap) does have a cost.
Edit: and the Visceral Repulsion and the Terminological Overlap referred to different parts of the great-grandparent—“some people don’t have souls” and “NPC” respectively.
I think you are misunderstanding me, and I’d like to clarify some things.
I did not read the great-grandparent as a dog whistle. I did not and do not think that paperoli’s use of the term NPC indicates that they are alt-right. I think that it will indicate to other people that they are alt-right.
My politics-detector is not being used to directly indicate “do I like this?” to me. Rather, I am using it as a proxy for “will people in general dislike this?”, combined with the knowledge that certain political standpoints are very costly to seem to hold.
I only brought up the political aspect because I saw the alt-right as being relevant to LW in that we should be trying, with some nonzero amount of effort, to avoid being associated strongly with them. As a result, I considered “avoid comments like this” to be a net positive action. I am now less certain that it’s worth the cost, but I think it was worth stating that the alternative (ignoring terminological overlap) does have a cost.
Edit: and the Visceral Repulsion and the Terminological Overlap referred to different parts of the great-grandparent—“some people don’t have souls” and “NPC” respectively.