5. the value of something like, how EA looks to outsiders? that seems to be the thing behind multiple points (2, 4, 7, and 8) in this which was upvoted, and i saw it other times this debate week (for example here) as a reason against the animal welfare option.
(i personally think that compromising epistemics for optics is one way movements … if not die, at least become incrementally more of a simulacrum, no longer the thing they were meant to be. and i’m not sure if such claims are always honest, or if they can secretly function to enforce the relevance of public attitudes one shares without needing to argue for them.)
5. the value of something like, how EA looks to outsiders? that seems to be the thing behind multiple points (2, 4, 7, and 8) in this which was upvoted, and i saw it other times this debate week (for example here) as a reason against the animal welfare option.
(i personally think that compromising epistemics for optics is one way movements … if not die, at least become incrementally more of a simulacrum, no longer the thing they were meant to be. and i’m not sure if such claims are always honest, or if they can secretly function to enforce the relevance of public attitudes one shares without needing to argue for them.)