I’ll just point out that you say here Manifest is a non-EA conference, but here you say that “Manifest is not a rationalist event significantly more than it is an EA one”. I know the two claims are not fully contradictory, but it does seem like you are insinuating EAs should not be complaining about a non-EA event while telling Dustin that he shouldn’t blame the Hanania invite on rationality more than EA.
I think the responsibility for the Hanania invite (which I dislike fyi and put some effort into stopping) lies with Austin. Austin is a bit of an EA and a bit of a rat, but really he’s a hyper transparent Catholic[1]. His intuitions are different than basically anyone’s here. I like him and trust him to run events where he invites people I don’t like.
I thought about this and he really wouldn’t care about me saying it. He is the most transparent person I think I’ve ever met. If you told me that he made his emails public I wouldn’t be that surprised.
I’ll just point out that you say here Manifest is a non-EA conference, but here you say that “Manifest is not a rationalist event significantly more than it is an EA one”. I know the two claims are not fully contradictory, but it does seem like you are insinuating EAs should not be complaining about a non-EA event while telling Dustin that he shouldn’t blame the Hanania invite on rationality more than EA.
What’s the contradiction here?
I think the responsibility for the Hanania invite (which I dislike fyi and put some effort into stopping) lies with Austin. Austin is a bit of an EA and a bit of a rat, but really he’s a hyper transparent Catholic[1]. His intuitions are different than basically anyone’s here. I like him and trust him to run events where he invites people I don’t like.
I thought about this and he really wouldn’t care about me saying it. He is the most transparent person I think I’ve ever met. If you told me that he made his emails public I wouldn’t be that surprised.