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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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Aella

@Aella_Girl

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).

2:51 AM · Jan 14, 2023

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Need the autistic altruists, that keep things so real.

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unironically this when ea was smaller, the autist ratio was significantly higher all the misdirected focus on "movement building" brought a bunch of soft dull normies in, did much more harm than good

Josh Pollock

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@Josh412

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@Aella_Girl

The reason most people are EAs is they want to reduce the suffering of others and do something meaningful with their lives. I respect anyone who is in it for that, as long as we're talking about people who are alive now and in the near future.

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Were you friends with SBF?

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Was it ostensibly science-wielding EAs behind most of that cancellation rhetoric? Damn. By the sound of it, I thought he got brigaded by a bunch of left-wing SJWs.

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EA was always people looking for ways to avoid doing the work that would actually fix problems. It deserves no respect. Which is a shame because the people eho like EA would be really good at fixing problems.