Much of this might be true and I agree with most of the reforms—I hope many EA groups and orgs might be shifting slowly in those directions even while not necessarily announcing it. I especially like the stuff around epistemic modesty, understanding what we really mean by value alignment and some of the Karma reworking. Obviously the voting weight system has pros and cons in both directions, but I still do feel uncomfortable about a space where one person’s opinion is worth more than another
I would be interested though to hear if you know of another community which is more open to criticism, either shallow or deep than EA. I don’t have a wide spectrum of communities, but I can tell you in the NGO world and in specific fields of academia, my experience has been that people get far pricklier far faster than in the one EA group I was part of and on this forum. It is difficult for any group to truly gaze into its own abyss to acknowledge flaws and weaknesses. I still feel that even though we might struggle with deep self criticism, perhaps we are still better at it than others.
Much of this might be true and I agree with most of the reforms—I hope many EA groups and orgs might be shifting slowly in those directions even while not necessarily announcing it. I especially like the stuff around epistemic modesty, understanding what we really mean by value alignment and some of the Karma reworking. Obviously the voting weight system has pros and cons in both directions, but I still do feel uncomfortable about a space where one person’s opinion is worth more than another
I would be interested though to hear if you know of another community which is more open to criticism, either shallow or deep than EA. I don’t have a wide spectrum of communities, but I can tell you in the NGO world and in specific fields of academia, my experience has been that people get far pricklier far faster than in the one EA group I was part of and on this forum. It is difficult for any group to truly gaze into its own abyss to acknowledge flaws and weaknesses. I still feel that even though we might struggle with deep self criticism, perhaps we are still better at it than others.