It is inevitable that the EA brand will now be associated with irrational feminized college students rather than interesting quantitative thinkers willing to bite socially undesirable bullets. In many ways this association will be correct in practice, because we are outnumbered.
I dislike this part, especially the phrase “irrational feminized college students”.
Not only is this passage crude and offensive, it’s also wrong. If you look at the negative stereotypes of EA, it’s primarily about EA being too emotionless and utilitarian, or being too weird (think the ftx trial coverage). Or more recently, about EA being too scared of AI and blocking progress.
This phrase is highly sexist and doesn’t mean anything, especially since the demographics have barely changed (from 26% to 29% of women...wouldn’t call it a shift in demographics), and what does that mean that women cannot use strong quantitative evidence? I don’t need to say how ridiculous.
I don’t see the point of this text. It doesn’t touch upon anything specific, remaining very vague as to what are the ‘old values’. The thing about charities is also surprising giving OpenPhil’s switch to GCR, funding less and less neartermist charities (human at least, animal-based charities might get more funding given the current call for that now).
I dislike this part, especially the phrase “irrational feminized college students”.
Not only is this passage crude and offensive, it’s also wrong. If you look at the negative stereotypes of EA, it’s primarily about EA being too emotionless and utilitarian, or being too weird (think the ftx trial coverage). Or more recently, about EA being too scared of AI and blocking progress.
This phrase is highly sexist and doesn’t mean anything, especially since the demographics have barely changed (from 26% to 29% of women...wouldn’t call it a shift in demographics), and what does that mean that women cannot use strong quantitative evidence? I don’t need to say how ridiculous.
I don’t see the point of this text. It doesn’t touch upon anything specific, remaining very vague as to what are the ‘old values’. The thing about charities is also surprising giving OpenPhil’s switch to GCR, funding less and less neartermist charities (human at least, animal-based charities might get more funding given the current call for that now).