I think the overall balance of positive and negative sources is fair when only viewed from a “positive versus negative” standpoint. As I think Habiba Islam pointed out somewhere much of the positive reading is much much longer. Where I think this will wind up running into trouble is something like this:
-While there is some primary reading in this list, most of the articles, figures, events, ideas etc. that are discussed across these readings appear in the secondary sources.
-This is pretty much inevitable, the list would multiply out far too much if she added all of the primary sources needed to evaluate the secondary sources from scratch
-Most of the secondary sources are negative, and often misleading in some significant way
-The standard way to try to check these problems without multiplying out primary sources too much is to read other pieces arguing with the original ones
-The trouble is, there are very few of those outside of blogs and the EA forum on these topics, something I’ve been hand wringing about for a while, and Thorn seems to only be looking at more official sources like academic/magazine/newspaper publications
-I think Thorn will try to be balanced and thoughtful, but I think this disparity will almost ensure that the video will inherit many of the flaws of its sources
I think the overall balance of positive and negative sources is fair when only viewed from a “positive versus negative” standpoint. As I think Habiba Islam pointed out somewhere much of the positive reading is much much longer. Where I think this will wind up running into trouble is something like this:
-While there is some primary reading in this list, most of the articles, figures, events, ideas etc. that are discussed across these readings appear in the secondary sources.
-This is pretty much inevitable, the list would multiply out far too much if she added all of the primary sources needed to evaluate the secondary sources from scratch
-Most of the secondary sources are negative, and often misleading in some significant way
-The standard way to try to check these problems without multiplying out primary sources too much is to read other pieces arguing with the original ones
-The trouble is, there are very few of those outside of blogs and the EA forum on these topics, something I’ve been hand wringing about for a while, and Thorn seems to only be looking at more official sources like academic/magazine/newspaper publications
-I think Thorn will try to be balanced and thoughtful, but I think this disparity will almost ensure that the video will inherit many of the flaws of its sources