poetically tragic that Kelsey Piper took a job at Vox to popularize effective altruism and completely squandered the opportunity to be, y'know, an *effective* altruist https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1243301678301888512 …
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lel — "What it felt like from the inside was that the implications of my beliefs were too ridiculous for me to feel comfortable committing them to public scrutiny." http://archive.is/dLd1i this is *exactly* what
@L0m3z was getting at: https://americanmind.org/features/the-coronacrisis-and-our-future-discontents/the-death-of-midwit-expertise/ …pic.twitter.com/dtFiODxPB6
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"I had a bunch of templates for how reasonable people talk and what kinds of things they say" girl what?????????
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optics and obeying epistemic authority, because that's what rationalism is all about!
notice that she doesn't say *why* she felt so constrained, funny how that workspic.twitter.com/DGUUfTWNga
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someone could have made basically this exact thread about me after the Trump election, FYI here is my embarrassing-in-retrospect blog post about it: https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2016/11/trump-election-2016.html …
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if being willing to look crazy is the cost of telling the truth, at times, and you straight-up say that you aren't willing to pay that cost... why should we trust you, again? https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1243663407984844807 …pic.twitter.com/yjl60M8QdZ
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coronavirus twitter is wild, people out here posting that a couple of months ago they were sincerely concerned that millions of people could die, that their home communities could suffer like Wuhan, but they didn't say anything because... they might get mocked?
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yes that's how normies operate; they funnel the resulting anxiety into punishing deviations
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