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Comment author: steven0461 22 January 2011 02:33:05AM 2 points [-]

posts and comments that talk about politics in the usual way full of biases, delusions, and strong emotions should be downvoted and discouraged

Wouldn't it be great if LessWrong were capable of doing that?

(My guess is "not really", because it's an antiprediction that an accurate understanding of politics will include some unusual and extreme-sounding positions, and the spread of such positions on LessWrong may make the site look bad, undermining its influence on nonpolitical issues that it's better-placed to affect.)