Reminder for many people in this thread:
“Having a small clique of young white STEM grads creates tons of obvious blindspots and groupthink in EA, which is bad.”
is not the same belief as
“The STEM/techie/quantitative/utilitarian/Pareto’s-rule/Bayesian/”cold” cluster-of-approaches to EA, is bad.”
You can believe both. You can believe neither. You can believe just the first one. You can believe the second one. They’re not the same belief.
I think the first one is probably true, but the second one is probably false.
Thinking the first belief is true, is nowhere near strong enough evidence to think the second one is also true.
(I responded to… a couple similar ideas here.)
Reminder for many people in this thread:
“Having a small clique of young white STEM grads creates tons of obvious blindspots and groupthink in EA, which is bad.”
is not the same belief as
“The STEM/techie/quantitative/utilitarian/Pareto’s-rule/Bayesian/”cold” cluster-of-approaches to EA, is bad.”
You can believe both. You can believe neither. You can believe just the first one. You can believe the second one. They’re not the same belief.
I think the first one is probably true, but the second one is probably false.
Thinking the first belief is true, is nowhere near strong enough evidence to think the second one is also true.
(I responded to… a couple similar ideas here.)