I think it’s good to both address sexual misconduct and to correct misleading context in media pieces. But if you only mention the latter, it gives the impression that the former doesn’t matter. I would highly encourage people who care about both to at least mention that you care about reducing the level of misconduct. It may sound like stating the obvious, but it really does matter.
While I certainly hope everyone cares about both, I can’t honestly say I believe that. Going through the lesswrong thread, it honestly looks to me like a lot of people genuinely don’t want to think about the issue at all, and I find this concerning. For example, downvoting the thread to 0 seems completely unwarranted.
None of this was news to the people who use LessWrong.
The time to have a conversation about what went wrong and what a community can do better, is immediately after you learned that the thing happened. If you search for the names of the people involved, you’ll see that LessWrong did that at length.
The worst possible time to bring the topic up again, is when someone writes a misleading article for the express purpose of hurting you, which was not written to be helpful and purposefully lacks the context that it would require in order to be helpful. Why would you give someone a button they can press to make your forum talk for weeks about nothing?
It was a low-quality article and was downvoted so fewer people saw it. I wish the same had happened here.
I think it’s good to both address sexual misconduct and to correct misleading context in media pieces. But if you only mention the latter, it gives the impression that the former doesn’t matter. I would highly encourage people who care about both to at least mention that you care about reducing the level of misconduct. It may sound like stating the obvious, but it really does matter.
While I certainly hope everyone cares about both, I can’t honestly say I believe that. Going through the lesswrong thread, it honestly looks to me like a lot of people genuinely don’t want to think about the issue at all, and I find this concerning. For example, downvoting the thread to 0 seems completely unwarranted.
None of this was news to the people who use LessWrong.
The time to have a conversation about what went wrong and what a community can do better, is immediately after you learned that the thing happened. If you search for the names of the people involved, you’ll see that LessWrong did that at length.
The worst possible time to bring the topic up again, is when someone writes a misleading article for the express purpose of hurting you, which was not written to be helpful and purposefully lacks the context that it would require in order to be helpful. Why would you give someone a button they can press to make your forum talk for weeks about nothing?
It was a low-quality article and was downvoted so fewer people saw it. I wish the same had happened here.