An example here is this quote, which straddles dangerously close to “these people have morality that you find to be offensive, therefore they are wrong on the actual facts of the matter” (Otherwise you would make the Nazi source allegations less central to your criticism here):
(I don’t hold the moral views of what the quote is saying, to be clear).
It has never stopped shocking and disgusting me that the EA Forum is a place where someone can write a post arguing that Black Africans need Western-funded programs to edit their genomes to increase their intelligence in order to overcome global poverty and can cite overtly racist and white supremacist sources to support this argument (even a source with significant connections to the 1930s and 1940s Nazi Party in Germany and the American Nazi Party, a neo-Nazi party) and that post can receive a significant amount of approval and defense from people in EA, even after the thin disguise over top of the racism is removed by perceptive readers. That is such a bonkers thing and such a morally repugnant thing, I keep struggling to find words to express my exasperation and disbelief. Effective altruism as a movement probably deserves to fail for that, if it can’t correct it.[2]
An example here is this quote, which straddles dangerously close to “these people have morality that you find to be offensive, therefore they are wrong on the actual facts of the matter” (Otherwise you would make the Nazi source allegations less central to your criticism here):
(I don’t hold the moral views of what the quote is saying, to be clear).