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comment by Elo · 2018-09-28T21:39:03.902Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Title is misleading. Last line should be the first line.

comment by Vladimir_Nesov · 2018-09-28T22:29:05.978Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The concept is fine, it's the misuse of the words denoting it that can cause problems by diluting the concept, giving bad training data so that the concept gets learned in many distorted forms. It might be useful to taboo the words [LW · GW] that denote the concept in order to make explaining it easier. Or just refer people to a blog post somewhere that explains the idea, it's the same as any knowledge.

It's also not necessary to show people how to be an effective altruist (or to believe or assert that it's a good idea) in order to explain the concept.

comment by Vaughn Papenhausen (Ikaxas) · 2018-10-01T19:36:57.763Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I think the word you're looking for instead of "ban" is "taboo [LW · GW]".