This. The EA orientation towards the felt experience of suffering and, by extension, compassion is so fucked. The president of Stanford EA told me he'd noticed other EAs feeling cold + calculating where he felt warm + compassionate, and wondered if he should be colder.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1116967983539269632 …
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Similarly when women say "men are X" they don't mean literally all men and it's a huge distraction from their point to respond "not all men" which is the whole point of the phrase "not all men"
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I'm not a fan of the "not all men" hashtag or whatever. Nobody likes negative generalizations about their own group, and I think that's totally fair to complain about. I suppose it depends on context though. And whether the original statement is meant as an off-the-cuff 1/
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