I know lots of people with lots of dispositions experience friction with just declining their parents’ religions, but that doesn’t mean I “get it” i.e., conflating religion with birth lotteries and immutability seems a little unhinged to me.
There may be a consensus that it’s low status to say out loud “we only hire harvard alum” or maybe illegal (or whatever), but there’s not a lot of pressure to actually try reducing implicit selection effects that end up in effect quite similar to a hardline rule. And I think harvard undergrad admissions have way more in common with lotteries than religion does!
I think the old sequencesy sort of “being bad at metaphysics (rejecting reductionism) is a predictor of unclear thinking” is fine! The better response to that is “come on, no one’s actually talking about literal belief in literal gods, they’re moreso saying that the social technologies are valuable or they’re uncomfortable just not stewarding their ancestors’ traditions” than like a DEI argument.
There is more to get into here but two main things:
I guess some EAs, and some who I think do really good work do literally believe in literal gods
I don’t actually think this is that predictive. I know some theists who are great at thinking carefully and many athiests who aren’t. I reckon I could distinguish the two in a discussion better than rejecting the former out of hand.
I know lots of people with lots of dispositions experience friction with just declining their parents’ religions, but that doesn’t mean I “get it” i.e., conflating religion with birth lotteries and immutability seems a little unhinged to me.
There may be a consensus that it’s low status to say out loud “we only hire harvard alum” or maybe illegal (or whatever), but there’s not a lot of pressure to actually try reducing implicit selection effects that end up in effect quite similar to a hardline rule. And I think harvard undergrad admissions have way more in common with lotteries than religion does!
I think the old sequencesy sort of “being bad at metaphysics (rejecting reductionism) is a predictor of unclear thinking” is fine! The better response to that is “come on, no one’s actually talking about literal belief in literal gods, they’re moreso saying that the social technologies are valuable or they’re uncomfortable just not stewarding their ancestors’ traditions” than like a DEI argument.
There is more to get into here but two main things:
I guess some EAs, and some who I think do really good work do literally believe in literal gods
I don’t actually think this is that predictive. I know some theists who are great at thinking carefully and many athiests who aren’t. I reckon I could distinguish the two in a discussion better than rejecting the former out of hand.