Lukas_Gloor comments on Arguments Against Speciesism - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Lukas_Gloor 28 July 2013 06:24PM

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Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 29 July 2013 03:24:10PM *  9 points [-]

Since grandparent received so many upvotes, I'm going to explain my reasoning for posting in Main:

Rules of thumb:

Your post discusses core Less Wrong topics.

The material in your post seems especially important or useful.

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(At least one of) LW's primary goal(s) is to get people thinking about far future scenarios to improve the world. LW is about rationality, but it is also about ethics. Whether anti-speciesism is especially important or useful is something that people have different opinions on, but the question itself is clearly important because it may lead to different/adjusted prioritizing in practice.

Comment author: katydee 29 July 2013 05:51:32PM 0 points [-]

I disagree with the FAQ in that respect (among others-- see for instance my thoughts on the use of the term "tapping out"). My preference is that people only post to Main if their post discusses core Less Wrong topics, and maybe not even then.