Done on both of the concerns you raised. RE: acknowledgement, I believe people who update others should be celebrated :)
Agreed that the West African fishermen analogy would have been better than the KFC.
is the expected pushback because the audience is tribal and unwilling to consider anything that isn’t coming from its ingroup?
As far as tribalism goes, EAs and rationalists are miles better than every other group I’ve ever come across, but that doesn’t mean we’re not immune to it, especially with deeply divisive issues such as this post’s subject.
RE: Scott’s quote, most pro-choice people don’t think that way, but I’ve met many anecdotally who do. Like you said, they more commonly consider abortion to not be equivalent to murder, with the violinist analogy as a backup in case it were equivalent.
Done on both of the concerns you raised. RE: acknowledgement, I believe people who update others should be celebrated :)
Agreed that the West African fishermen analogy would have been better than the KFC.
As far as tribalism goes, EAs and rationalists are miles better than every other group I’ve ever come across, but that doesn’t mean we’re not immune to it, especially with deeply divisive issues such as this post’s subject.
RE: Scott’s quote, most pro-choice people don’t think that way, but I’ve met many anecdotally who do. Like you said, they more commonly consider abortion to not be equivalent to murder, with the violinist analogy as a backup in case it were equivalent.