knb comments on Go Forth and Create the Art! - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 April 2009 01:37AM

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Comment author: knb 23 April 2009 04:22:06PM *  3 points [-]

"And if you generalize a bit further, then building the Art could also be taken to include issues like developing better introductory literature, developing better slogans for public relations, establishing common cause with other Enlightenment subtasks, analyzing and addressing the gender imbalance problem..."

The issue of racial imbalance on Less Wrong has gotten considerably less attention than gender imbalance. Is this because race is largely socially constructed, and thus not considered a meaningful division? Or is the issue of racial imbalance in this community simply too sensitive to touch?

Comment author: knb 23 April 2009 09:12:38PM 0 points [-]

Wow. I wonder why this comment was voted down, yet generated so many comments. Is it considered off-topic?

Comment author: Nominull 23 April 2009 11:23:55PM 2 points [-]

It's because you're right about issues of race being super-sensitive.