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John_Maxwell_IV comments on Six Ways To Get Along With People Who Are Totally Wrong* - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: RobertWiblin 27 May 2015 12:37PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 27 May 2015 01:04:53PM *  1 point [-]

Apologies in advance for excessive positivity: It's great to see that the CEA leadership team has committed to playing a mediator role and helping everyone in the EA movement get along as the EA movement expands :)

Have you guys thought about linking to this or other sensible discussion stuff in the description for the EA facebook group or http://effective-altruism.com/ea/6x/introduction_to_effective_altruism/ ? I think reaching newcomers to the movement is key.

Also, I've been working on a few "metapolitics" posts for the EA forum (thoughts on how to have political discussions better/depoliticize discussion, written at the meta level without taking a side, in the same vein as these previous LW posts of mine: 1, 2 and this EA forum comment). My thinking is that it's best to discuss metapolitics preemptively rather than waiting for politicization to rear its head in a big way (and have your metapolitics post be perceived as supporting one side or the other rather than talking about how best for discussions to proceed in the abstract). Do you have any thoughts on this? (I'd be interested in getting your feedback on metapolitics posts before I make them if you have time to read them. Also, any other EAs that are interested in taking an advance look are more than welcome to PM with their preferred contact method.)