We have community norms against political discussion that are especially harsh towards comments that simply cheer for one side and/or boo another.

If the world does end up like your Pleasantville-utopia, newly awakened people will fight to bring such a regime down, and if I live to get there, I'll support them.

Do you or would you secretly invade your child's privacy for their own protection?

The fact that this is "catnip" for LW-ers is a bad thing. We ought to be giving neoreaction about as much credence as we give Creationism: it's founded on bad ethics, false facts, and bad reasoning, and should be dismissed, not discussed to death.

I note (and others have noted) that SSC, although hosting the definitive NRx takedown, still puts NRx ideas in the sphere of things to be discussed calmly with steelmanning; whereas it reacts with actual disgust and lack of philosophical charity to feminism, social justice, Tumblr, etc. And that Yvain was literally surprised to find himself becoming more right-wing after hanging around neoreactionaries, i.e. that he was picking up his ideas from his friends.

What does it mean to optimize the world, assuming the Many Worlds theory is true?

It's caused by guns. If you're considering gun control, most gun-related deaths are suicide, and you consider suicide to be just as bad as any other form of death, then the most important consideration is suicide.

have you noticed people adopting the lesswrong terminology and inaccurately priding themselves on being "sane"?