Seems like the forum is a good place to discuss this (rather than Torres’ twitter, which i suggest is a bad place). Heck, Torres is a member of the forum (I think) and I’d welcome his thoughts.
I think it would be tempting to respond to him directly on twitter, but I think that would just give this article oxygen. I don’t think we should reward a bad (in my opinion) article like this. Instead, I find Robert Wiblin’s advice pretty good here.
”A large % of critiques of EA / longtermism seem driven by the author not being familiar with what they really are, or the best arguments in their favour. So rather than reply directly I find it better just to produce deeper & clearer materials explaining what I believe and why.”
So I guess my question is “how can we write materials which assuage or clarify these concerns such that if someone had read them they would not be convinced by Torres’ article?”
Note that Torres was banned from the forum for a year following a previous discussion here where he repeatedly called another member a liar and implied that member should be fired from his job.
Seems like the forum is a good place to discuss this (rather than Torres’ twitter, which i suggest is a bad place). Heck, Torres is a member of the forum (I think) and I’d welcome his thoughts.
I think it would be tempting to respond to him directly on twitter, but I think that would just give this article oxygen. I don’t think we should reward a bad (in my opinion) article like this. Instead, I find Robert Wiblin’s advice pretty good here.
”A large % of critiques of EA / longtermism seem driven by the author not being familiar with what they really are, or the best arguments in their favour. So rather than reply directly I find it better just to produce deeper & clearer materials explaining what I believe and why.”
https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1422213998527799307?s=20
So I guess my question is “how can we write materials which assuage or clarify these concerns such that if someone had read them they would not be convinced by Torres’ article?”
Note that Torres was banned from the forum for a year following a previous discussion here where he repeatedly called another member a liar and implied that member should be fired from his job.