Maybe I should have said “I’d prefer if you didn’t try to convince me to stay”. Moral philosophy isn’t a huge interest of mine anymore, and I don’t really feel like justifying myself on this. I am giving an account of something that happened to me. Not making an argument for what you should believe. I was very careful to say “in my view” for non-trivial claims. I explicitly said “Prioritizing animals (particularly invertebrates) relied on total-view utilitarianism (for me).” So I’m not interested in hearing why prioritizing animals does not necessarily rely on total view utilitarianism.
I’m clearing up the philosophical issues here. It’s fine if you don’t agree, but I want others to have a better view of the issue. After all, you started your post by saying that EAs are overconfident and think their views are self evident. Well, what I’m doing here is explaining the reasons I have for believing these things, to combat such perceptions and improve people’s understanding of the issues. Because other people are going to see this conversation, and they’re going to make some judgement about EAs like me because of it.
But if you explicitly didn’t want people to respond to your points… heck, I dunno what you were looking for. You shouldn’t expect to not have people respond with their points of view, especially when you disagree on a public forum.
You’re free to offer your own thoughts on the matter, but you seemed to be trying to engage me in a personal debate, which I have no interest in doing. This isn’t a clickbait title, I’m not concern trolling, I really have left the EA community. I don’t know of any other people who have changed their mind about EA like this, so I thought my story might be of some interest to people. And hey, maybe a few of y’all were wondering where I went.
Maybe I should have said “I’d prefer if you didn’t try to convince me to stay”. Moral philosophy isn’t a huge interest of mine anymore, and I don’t really feel like justifying myself on this. I am giving an account of something that happened to me. Not making an argument for what you should believe. I was very careful to say “in my view” for non-trivial claims. I explicitly said “Prioritizing animals (particularly invertebrates) relied on total-view utilitarianism (for me).” So I’m not interested in hearing why prioritizing animals does not necessarily rely on total view utilitarianism.
I’m clearing up the philosophical issues here. It’s fine if you don’t agree, but I want others to have a better view of the issue. After all, you started your post by saying that EAs are overconfident and think their views are self evident. Well, what I’m doing here is explaining the reasons I have for believing these things, to combat such perceptions and improve people’s understanding of the issues. Because other people are going to see this conversation, and they’re going to make some judgement about EAs like me because of it.
But if you explicitly didn’t want people to respond to your points… heck, I dunno what you were looking for. You shouldn’t expect to not have people respond with their points of view, especially when you disagree on a public forum.
You’re free to offer your own thoughts on the matter, but you seemed to be trying to engage me in a personal debate, which I have no interest in doing. This isn’t a clickbait title, I’m not concern trolling, I really have left the EA community. I don’t know of any other people who have changed their mind about EA like this, so I thought my story might be of some interest to people. And hey, maybe a few of y’all were wondering where I went.