1. I never spoke specifically of corporate advocates, so despite the fact that I agree with you that other motives are often at play, my point here was that one reason some advocates support traditional diversity is because they have reason to believe it tracks different views on the world. That’s neither mutually exclusive with the reasons you outline nor is this article about corporate motivation.
2. As you cite I state this list is ‘non-exhaustive’. If the prominent EAs who are not on this list agree that reverence is not good for a community’s epistemic health, then they should not even want to be on the list. After publishing this article I was also notified of prominant female EAs who could have maybe made this list, but since I only listed individuals who I experienced directly as being talked about in a revered manner, they are not listed. My experience won’t generalise to all experiences. My two points here are: there are revered individuals and they are mostly male. I agree there are likely a few revered women, but I would be surprised if they are numerous enough to balance out the male bias.
3. Fair point. I find it hard to tell how much things have changed and simply wanted to point out some evidence I found in writing.
My experience being named “Julia” in EA is that people periodically tell me how much they love my podcast, until they find out I’m not actually Julia Galef.
1. I never spoke specifically of corporate advocates, so despite the fact that I agree with you that other motives are often at play, my point here was that one reason some advocates support traditional diversity is because they have reason to believe it tracks different views on the world. That’s neither mutually exclusive with the reasons you outline nor is this article about corporate motivation.
2. As you cite I state this list is ‘non-exhaustive’. If the prominent EAs who are not on this list agree that reverence is not good for a community’s epistemic health, then they should not even want to be on the list. After publishing this article I was also notified of prominant female EAs who could have maybe made this list, but since I only listed individuals who I experienced directly as being talked about in a revered manner, they are not listed. My experience won’t generalise to all experiences. My two points here are: there are revered individuals and they are mostly male. I agree there are likely a few revered women, but I would be surprised if they are numerous enough to balance out the male bias.
3. Fair point. I find it hard to tell how much things have changed and simply wanted to point out some evidence I found in writing.
My experience being named “Julia” in EA is that people periodically tell me how much they love my podcast, until they find out I’m not actually Julia Galef.