I get the feeling that you are trying to give Bostrom a break , Bostrom is not sorry that he wrote the mail , he is only sorry that he might be exposed and then he is just one of the closet racists who unfortunately might be responsible for determining the future of minorities in many institutions and the tragedy of it all is , how does this kind of attitudes and beliefs influence the decision this people make concerning the futures of many.
I Really Think Bostrom does not care at all about race. He has a modestly racist Bayesian prior, and probably he is able to update beliefs when confronted with relevant individual information.
Really, his neurotype is too un emotional for racism or even moderate nationalistic chovinism.
I Really Think Bostrom does not care at all about race. He has a modestly racist Bayesian prior
This is a contradiction. The second part is just a jargon-filled way to say he’s racist. When people are racist, this is exactly the description of what they do: they start off by assuming people who they perceive to belong to another race are not as good as them.
But true racists are essentialists! They do not update beliefs. Bostrom lives for one thing over all others: to be factually right, all the time about everything. Perhaps human survival o suffering is important for him, but it is obvious that goes in second place.
I don’t know which are his real present prior on the black white IQ gap, but I have no reason to think that he consider it to be wide (because it is not), nor I have any reason to think that he does not update beliefs on personal IQ when information arrives.
In fact given how epistemologically uncompromising he has proven to be, I am more confident than ever in he being even handedly Bayesian on race and everything else.
I have witten this post supporting Bostrom. This is a critical issue:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/r3f45au7ewEkypygf/wokism-rethinking-priorities-and-the-bostrom-case
I get the feeling that you are trying to give Bostrom a break , Bostrom is not sorry that he wrote the mail , he is only sorry that he might be exposed and then he is just one of the closet racists who unfortunately might be responsible for determining the future of minorities in many institutions and the tragedy of it all is , how does this kind of attitudes and beliefs influence the decision this people make concerning the futures of many.
I Really Think Bostrom does not care at all about race. He has a modestly racist Bayesian prior, and probably he is able to update beliefs when confronted with relevant individual information.
Really, his neurotype is too un emotional for racism or even moderate nationalistic chovinism.
This is a contradiction. The second part is just a jargon-filled way to say he’s racist. When people are racist, this is exactly the description of what they do: they start off by assuming people who they perceive to belong to another race are not as good as them.
But true racists are essentialists! They do not update beliefs. Bostrom lives for one thing over all others: to be factually right, all the time about everything. Perhaps human survival o suffering is important for him, but it is obvious that goes in second place.
I don’t know which are his real present prior on the black white IQ gap, but I have no reason to think that he consider it to be wide (because it is not), nor I have any reason to think that he does not update beliefs on personal IQ when information arrives.
In fact given how epistemologically uncompromising he has proven to be, I am more confident than ever in he being even handedly Bayesian on race and everything else.