Yeah I mean your intuition isn’t wrong, one of the parts is literally “ways of knowing” and links to a mid-tier breadtuber. It’s this weird left-wing envy I don’t get in EA. If we want to reduce conflict and infighting I don’t understand why looking towards the Left of all places. This portion of the OP is the worst written but I feel like EAs upvote it and say they like it because it reads of epistemically virtuous to be open to it. Also the authors are a bit dishonest as last time they received the partisan criticism they just pretended it was not left-leaning at all[1].
Honestly, I wanted to write a left-wing critique[2] but reading the ConcernedEAs stuff made me realise it’d just get lumped in and also bad faith actors just use criticism as a cudgel. I also don’t understand the deep criticism argument co-existing with the pseudonym argument because left-wing movements already exist and you can join them? You don’t need to stay in EA! You can also just split your time up?
I already wrote it and it’s about solidarity and the reactionary attitudes towards polyamory and circular firing squads in EA but I’m definitely not releasing it in the current climate. If anything I’m most tempted to write a post in the opposite direction against the Left at this point.
Yeah I mean your intuition isn’t wrong, one of the parts is literally “ways of knowing” and links to a mid-tier breadtuber. It’s this weird left-wing envy I don’t get in EA. If we want to reduce conflict and infighting I don’t understand why looking towards the Left of all places. This portion of the OP is the worst written but I feel like EAs upvote it and say they like it because it reads of epistemically virtuous to be open to it. Also the authors are a bit dishonest as last time they received the partisan criticism they just pretended it was not left-leaning at all[1].
Honestly, I wanted to write a left-wing critique[2] but reading the ConcernedEAs stuff made me realise it’d just get lumped in and also bad faith actors just use criticism as a cudgel. I also don’t understand the deep criticism argument co-existing with the pseudonym argument because left-wing movements already exist and you can join them? You don’t need to stay in EA! You can also just split your time up?
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/54vAiSFkYszTWWWv4/doing-ea-better-1?commentId=mdkzyA7H82a5rvjrA#comments
I already wrote it and it’s about solidarity and the reactionary attitudes towards polyamory and circular firing squads in EA but I’m definitely not releasing it in the current climate. If anything I’m most tempted to write a post in the opposite direction against the Left at this point.