Steve_Rayhawk comments on What does the world look like, the day before FAI efforts succeed? - Less Wrong Discussion
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Right, but this is a public-facing post. A lot of readers might not know why you could think it was obvious that "good guys" would imply things like information security, concern for Friendliness so-named, etc., and they might think that the intuition you mean to evoke with a vague affect-laden term like "good guys" is just the same argument-disdaining groupthink that would be implied if they saw it on any other site.
To prevent this impression, if you're going to use the term "good guys", then at or before the place where you first use it, you should probably put an explanation, like
Okay, I'm convinced. I think I will just remove the term altogether, because it's confusing the issue.
well said.