It seems like your goal with this post was to persuade EAs like me. I was trying to explain why I didn’t feel like there was much here that I found persuasive. I generally only go and read linked resources if there’s enough to make me curious, so a post that asserts something and links resources but doesn’t summarise the ideas or arguments is not persuasive to me. I’ve tried to be fairly clear about which parts of what you’re saying I think I understand well enough to confidently disagree with, and what parts I predict I would disagree with based on prior experience with other concepts and discourse from this ideological space but have not engaged enough to be confident in—I consider this perfectly consistent with evidence-based judgement. Life is far too short to go and read a bunch of things about every idea that I’m not confident is wrong
It seems like your goal with this post was to persuade EAs like me. I was trying to explain why I didn’t feel like there was much here that I found persuasive. I generally only go and read linked resources if there’s enough to make me curious, so a post that asserts something and links resources but doesn’t summarise the ideas or arguments is not persuasive to me. I’ve tried to be fairly clear about which parts of what you’re saying I think I understand well enough to confidently disagree with, and what parts I predict I would disagree with based on prior experience with other concepts and discourse from this ideological space but have not engaged enough to be confident in—I consider this perfectly consistent with evidence-based judgement. Life is far too short to go and read a bunch of things about every idea that I’m not confident is wrong