As an aside, the idea that we should prioritize optics over intellectually honest exploration of the epistemic landscape is deeply harmful to effective altruism as a whole.
I didn’t endorse that idea and, as an academic, obviously wouldn’t. Also as an academic, I think paying people to explain themselves to you when you haven’t first shown that you have read their work by e.g. explaining why you don’t find the arguments they have already made in print convincing is not a shining exemplar of intellectually honest exploration.
As an aside, the idea that we should prioritize optics over intellectually honest exploration of the epistemic landscape is deeply harmful to effective altruism as a whole.
I didn’t endorse that idea and, as an academic, obviously wouldn’t. Also as an academic, I think paying people to explain themselves to you when you haven’t first shown that you have read their work by e.g. explaining why you don’t find the arguments they have already made in print convincing is not a shining exemplar of intellectually honest exploration.