Not exactly; I ask people to call out the problems commonly impairing the rationality of other discussions of the topic, to help avoid them, and including that explanation would make any article at least a little bit “about rationality”. However, the justification for including the connection to rationality is to protect the quality of the conversation, not to satisfy an “is on-topic” requirement.
Fair enough; still, I feel most people underestimate how radical a change it is from “a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality” to “a community blog devoted to providing correct analysis on important subjects, informed by previous writings on the art of human rationality, and maybe refining that art a little bit as a side effect”.
We seem to have a mix of pure and applied reasoning topics. It would be bad if we lost one of those categories, or if the ratio got too far out of wack. Since we accept posts on lots of random important subjects, any effects that letting random important subjects in might have have already happened, and they clearly weren’t disastrous.
Not exactly; I ask people to call out the problems commonly impairing the rationality of other discussions of the topic, to help avoid them, and including that explanation would make any article at least a little bit “about rationality”. However, the justification for including the connection to rationality is to protect the quality of the conversation, not to satisfy an “is on-topic” requirement.
Fair enough; still, I feel most people underestimate how radical a change it is from “a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality” to “a community blog devoted to providing correct analysis on important subjects, informed by previous writings on the art of human rationality, and maybe refining that art a little bit as a side effect”.
We seem to have a mix of pure and applied reasoning topics. It would be bad if we lost one of those categories, or if the ratio got too far out of wack. Since we accept posts on lots of random important subjects, any effects that letting random important subjects in might have have already happened, and they clearly weren’t disastrous.