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| bogus | v1.24.0 | open problem: is there a way of seamlessly extending the LW rationalist approach into overtly political debates? | ||
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The Less Wrong blog is devoted to refining the art of human rationality, not conflict reduction, de-escalation or mediation. Successfully mediating a political dispute requires real-world skills and virtues which go far beyond the virtues of rationality; many of these political virtues were identified by Bernard Crick in his work In Defense of Politics. Unfortunately, shifting our focus to these activities would encourage fallacious analogies in private or deliberative decision making, which would defeat the site's purpose. Extending this site's mission to deal with overtly political deliberation remains an open problem.
In addition, there seems tomay well be a tensegritybalance of tensions between evaporative cooling of beliefs leading to groupthink, and extremely biased color politics. However, this is an underexplored issue.
The Less Wrong blog is devoted to refining the art of human rationality, not conflict reduction, de-escalation or mediation. Successfully mediating a political dispute requires real-world skills and virtues which go far beyond the virtues of rationality; many of these political virtues were identified by Bernard Crick in his work In Defense of Politics. Unfortunately, shifting our focus to these activities would encourage fallacious analogies in private or deliberative decision making, which would defeat the site's purpose.Extending this site's mission to deal with overtly political deliberation remains an open problem.
For all of these reasons, Less Wrong does not concern itself withtries to avoid particular political disputes. Of course, discussing conflict reduction skills in the abstract is appropriate and encouraged! In fact, it is the best way of preserving our deliberative, rationalist focus in the face of small-scale disputes and conflicts.
In addition, there seems to be a tensegrity between evaporative cooling of beliefs leading to groupthink, and extremely biased color politics. However, this is an underexplored issue.
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