hmm, i don't think EA is competing for brand space with rationality in the same way as A+ and atheism
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman
i don't think EA is trying to position itself, or has positioned itself, as a better version of the same thing
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
I feel like it's sort of positioned itself as the next logical step
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Replying to @admittedlyhuman
as a side note, some EAs feel that yudkowskists have been doing inappropriate entryism into their movement
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @admittedlyhuman
worth noting that yudkowsky + people around him placed great emphasis on both effectiveness and altruism from the beginning
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @admittedlyhuman
which is not to make an argument like "he owns it and should do whatever he wants with it". but EA is not an alien invader
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @admittedlyhuman
the similarity i see is that attention largely shifted away from thing that created community originally
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and in the direction of something more hip and with more moral commitments taken as given
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Replying to @teleonomist @admittedlyhuman
i think i agree with that except "attention largely shifted away"
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if it becomes "stop wasting time on this epistemology stuff, people are dying of malaria", then yes, it's worrisome
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