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Vaniver comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Multiheaded 04 August 2013 10:37:51AM *  12 points [-]

If, however, you're drunk

Yeah.

If you want to leave this board, but suspect you lack the willpower to do so

I feel like I have a duty before a community that I see massive potential in. To stand up for my values and denounce all the shit I hate here in an articulate, reasoned manner. But I'm very much not up to the task, and this makes me feel frustrated and miserable. And angry at my own impotence in the matter.

It'd be a big amount of work to even call out the most egregious shitty shit here on a regular basis, with some citations and explanations for why I did so. And it feels like people hardly even care.

Comment author: Vaniver 11 August 2013 02:35:20AM 4 points [-]

To stand up for my values and denounce all the shit I hate here in an articulate, reasoned manner. But I'm very much not up to the task, and this makes me feel frustrated and miserable. And angry at my own impotence in the matter.

I think it's important to separate out preferences and predictions, and try to limit values to the first. If you want to do something about posts you think should be responded to civilly, send them to me and I'll take a look.

That said...

You gentlemen can probably guess as to which ones of you I mean by this.

I feel like I should point out that I put about 20% probability that I'm included in this. In general, people are not as good at guessing this sort of information as you would expect.