I think your reflections on the piece are valuable and the important issues you point out are valuable. However I’m downvoting because I wouldn’t want people wasting their time reading the linked post because:
Even if the post had some merit in the way the EA movement and EA orgs treated criticism at the time of posting, it seems to be extremely out of date and inaccurately reflecting how EA relates to criticism in 2022 (E.g. we offer people significant reward for writing good critiques of EA and make clear to people in the community and outside of it that we value criticism highly)
I don’t think #1 is a major problem for criticism in general. We shouldn’t expect our critics to be saints, and I think hypocrisy is an over-applied heuristic for intellectual or moral disagreements.
I think your reflections on the piece are valuable and the important issues you point out are valuable. However I’m downvoting because I wouldn’t want people wasting their time reading the linked post because:
the author’s self-admitted use of dishonesty in writing the article in the first place, which happens between this comment from Will and this comment from Will.
Even if the post had some merit in the way the EA movement and EA orgs treated criticism at the time of posting, it seems to be extremely out of date and inaccurately reflecting how EA relates to criticism in 2022 (E.g. we offer people significant reward for writing good critiques of EA and make clear to people in the community and outside of it that we value criticism highly)
I don’t think #1 is a major problem for criticism in general. We shouldn’t expect our critics to be saints, and I think hypocrisy is an over-applied heuristic for intellectual or moral disagreements.
Somewhat agreed with #2 however.