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DataPacRat comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 December 2012 02:17:18AM 4 points [-]

Yeah seriously. What if violence is the right thing to do?

Then discussing it on the public Internet is the wrong thing to do. I can't compare it to anything but juvenile male locker-room boasting.

Comment author: DataPacRat 24 December 2012 02:45:23AM 12 points [-]

A friend and I once put together a short comic trying to analyze democracy from an unusual perspective, including presenting the idea that an underlying threat of violent popular uprising should the system be corrupted helps keep it running well. This was closely related to a shorter comic presenting some ideas on rationality. The project led to some interesting discussions with interesting people, which helped me figure out some ideas I hadn't previously considered, and I consider it to have been worth the effort; but I'm unsure whether or not it would fall afoul of the new policy.

How 'identifiable' do the targets of proposed violence have to be for the proposed policy to apply, and how 'hypothetical' would they have to be for it not to? Some clarification there would be appreciated.

Comment author: MugaSofer 25 December 2012 09:40:58AM 1 point [-]

How 'identifiable' do the targets of proposed violence have to be for the proposed policy to apply, and how 'hypothetical' would they have to be for it not to? Some clarification there would be appreciated.

It's only applied if a mod feels like it.