what do /you/ think a good LW post about liberty, freedom, and fundamental human rights would look like?
As other commenters in this thread have pointed out, these topics are politically charged and are little more than applause lights in most contexts. The LW community is really good at spotting applause lights and meaningless statements, so a post that discusses liberty in conventional terms would be downvoted into oblivion--and rightfully so, I think, because a post that treats abstract concepts like liberty as black boxes would probably be pretty confused. However, if you wrote a reductionistic post that dissolved our intuitions about freedom and liberty, that would be far more interesting and useful.
Adding to this, a good question to ask about liberty is why we value it. Then you can deal directly with the way we want society to be, rather than obscure the reality by describing it through the conventional black-box terms.
Politics is the mind-killer; but rationality is the science of /winning/, even when dealing with political issues.
I've been trying to apply LessWrong and Bayesian methods to the premises and favored issues of a particular political group. (Their most basic premise is roughly equivalent to declaring that Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma programs should be 'nice'.) But, given how quickly my previous thread trying to explore this issue was downvoted into disappearing, and many of the comments I've received on similar threads, I may have a rather large blind spot preventing me from being able /to/ properly apply LW methods in this area.
So I'll try a different approach - instead of giving it a go myself again, I'll simply ask, what do /you/ think a good LW post about liberty, freedom, and fundamental human rights would look like?