Tons of overlap in how the vlogbrothers think about their impact and EA. Great to see.
In particular, there was one episode of their podcast recently (I think it was “The Green Brothers are Often Wrong”), where they got comically close to describing themselves as EA; remarking that John was the heart (who cared a lot about people and “what was most important”) and Hank was the head, being really concerned with science and truth and progress and reasoning.
They are of course aware of EA via large EA participation in their PFA donation drive, but I believe they have a distant, caricatured view of the community itself. I heard of a livestream where they were asked about it and John said something to the effect of “there’s a lot of harm you can do if you only think of people as objects of analysis for you to intervene on when you should be dealing with them directly and empowering them in the ways that they decide they want to be empowered.”
They are of course aware of EA via large EA participation in their PFA donation drive, but I believe they have a distant, caricatured view of the community itself.
Aww, that is such a pity. Thanks for sharing that anecdata.
As someone who grew up watching the vlogbrothers I have always felt like we should be allies / friends! Fingers crossed, maybe one day 🤞
Tons of overlap in how the vlogbrothers think about their impact and EA. Great to see.
In particular, there was one episode of their podcast recently (I think it was “The Green Brothers are Often Wrong”), where they got comically close to describing themselves as EA; remarking that John was the heart (who cared a lot about people and “what was most important”) and Hank was the head, being really concerned with science and truth and progress and reasoning.
They are of course aware of EA via large EA participation in their PFA donation drive, but I believe they have a distant, caricatured view of the community itself. I heard of a livestream where they were asked about it and John said something to the effect of “there’s a lot of harm you can do if you only think of people as objects of analysis for you to intervene on when you should be dealing with them directly and empowering them in the ways that they decide they want to be empowered.”
Aww, that is such a pity. Thanks for sharing that anecdata.
As someone who grew up watching the vlogbrothers I have always felt like we should be allies / friends! Fingers crossed, maybe one day 🤞