Could you elaborate more on (some of) these considerations and why you think the cultishness risk is being overestimated relative to them?
My intuition is that it’s being generally underestimated
I didn’t say the cultishness risk is generally overestimated. I said that this particular post overestimates that risk relative to other considerations, which are given little attention. I don’t think it’s right to suggest a long list of changes based on one consideration alone, while mostly neglecting other considerations. That is especially so since the cult notion is anyway kind of vague.
Do you think it would be better to not suggest any action, or to filter these suggestions without any input from other people? To me it reads like “here are some ideas for prevention” rather than “we must do all of these immediately”. Though at least some of them look obviously true, like encouraging having non-EA friendships and discouraging intimate relationships between senior and junior employees of EA orgs.
I didn’t say the cultishness risk is generally overestimated. I said that this particular post overestimates that risk relative to other considerations, which are given little attention. I don’t think it’s right to suggest a long list of changes based on one consideration alone, while mostly neglecting other considerations. That is especially so since the cult notion is anyway kind of vague.
Do you think it would be better to not suggest any action, or to filter these suggestions without any input from other people? To me it reads like “here are some ideas for prevention” rather than “we must do all of these immediately”. Though at least some of them look obviously true, like encouraging having non-EA friendships and discouraging intimate relationships between senior and junior employees of EA orgs.
I’m not sure what you mean. I’m saying the post should have been more carefully argued.
I assume you hereby mean the same org (I think that’s the natural reading). But the post rather says:
That’s a very different suggestion.