It seems in a lot of cases you have disagreed with concepts before understanding them fully. Would you agree? And if so, why do you think this happened here, where I’m sure that you are great at making evidence-based judgements in other areas?
This comes across as passive-aggressive. Neel’s patient response below is right on the money.
If I recommend a book to someone on the EA Forum (or any forum), there’s a slim chance they’re going to read that book. The only way there’s going to be a realistic chance they’ll read it is either if I said something so interesting about it that it got them curious or if they were already curious about that topic area and decided the book is up their alley.
The same idea applies, to varying extents, to any other kind of media — blog posts, papers, videos, podcasts, etc.
A few of your other comments also contain stuff that comes across as passive-aggressive. (Particularly the ones that have zero or negative karma.)
I can empathize with your position in that I can understand what it’s like to try to engage with people who have really different perspectives on a topic that is important to me, and that this often feels frustrating.
All I can say is that if your goal is persuasion or to have some kind of meeting of the minds, then saying stuff like this just pushes people further away.
And realistically, there are tons of different altruistic or altruism-adjacent social movements, and there may be many of the size or significance of radical feminism. Expecting one’s reader to do a lot of research on one specific movement is a rather heavy ask.
This comes across as passive-aggressive. Neel’s patient response below is right on the money.
If I recommend a book to someone on the EA Forum (or any forum), there’s a slim chance they’re going to read that book. The only way there’s going to be a realistic chance they’ll read it is either if I said something so interesting about it that it got them curious or if they were already curious about that topic area and decided the book is up their alley.
The same idea applies, to varying extents, to any other kind of media — blog posts, papers, videos, podcasts, etc.
A few of your other comments also contain stuff that comes across as passive-aggressive. (Particularly the ones that have zero or negative karma.)
I can empathize with your position in that I can understand what it’s like to try to engage with people who have really different perspectives on a topic that is important to me, and that this often feels frustrating.
All I can say is that if your goal is persuasion or to have some kind of meeting of the minds, then saying stuff like this just pushes people further away.
And realistically, there are tons of different altruistic or altruism-adjacent social movements, and there may be many of the size or significance of radical feminism. Expecting one’s reader to do a lot of research on one specific movement is a rather heavy ask.