Lost some respect for EA due to the response to the Bostrom thing. I guess I shouldn't be surprised? CEA has always leaned a bit too far towards PR at the expense of integrity. I guess I'd hoped to see some more bravery. Feel like the correct response would have had more nuance.
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this has in fact bumped me significantly in the direction of no longer supporting/defending the organized EA movement (though I still support all my EA friends).
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I haven't seen their take but I think Bostrom's controversy is a not-terrible litmus test for people.
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you're going to be in the <5% fringe if you think w nuance & live w backbone
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A great many EAs are grateful for how far it took them in terms of social climbing, and very anxious to burn away all signs of where this mysterious pipeline came from
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Someone should do a socially blithe and autistic EA style calculation of the utility (or disutility) of studying or publicizing race/IQ differences. Hard to quantify obviously, perhaps doing a weighted average decision matrix on this would be good for starters.
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EAs greatest strength and weakness is that it’s an elite movement based in middle class students at top universities
Makes it a legit contender ideology to wokeism, but it suffers from some of the same social-climbing obsession with perception
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Always been wary of EAs tbh because of their obsession about second-order within-community effects
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