I believe Duncan's posts are cross-posted from his Substack to LessWrong due to popular demand. In that sense, Duncan can still be viewed as somewhat active.
However, the "(inactive)" in the name serves a purpose, which (very confident inference) is to public declare Duncan's relationship with the LessWrong comments section, which (reasonable inference) is somewhere between "I don't participate in the LessWrong comments section" and "I find some comments valuable and some comments anti-valuable, but want to specifically discharge my usual social obligation to read and respond to comments on my posts because this would be net-negative for me."
[comment epistemic status: quick and somewhat imprecise to serve the purpose of quickly answering the implied question of Keenen's comment.]
I believe Duncan's posts are cross-posted from his Substack to LessWrong due to popular demand. In that sense, Duncan can still be viewed as somewhat active.
However, the "(inactive)" in the name serves a purpose, which (very confident inference) is to public declare Duncan's relationship with the LessWrong comments section, which (reasonable inference) is somewhere between "I don't participate in the LessWrong comments section" and "I find some comments valuable and some comments anti-valuable, but want to specifically discharge my usual social obligation to read and respond to comments on my posts because this would be net-negative for me."
[comment epistemic status: quick and somewhat imprecise to serve the purpose of quickly answering the implied question of Keenen's comment.]