″ Some people are good at noticing when the authorities around them and their social community and the people on their side are making bad arguments. These people are valuable. They notice important things. They point out when the emperor has no clothes. And they literally built the EA movement.”
Just so I understand, 1. Part of your suspicion of the “racism is both bad and a pseudoscience” is that there is a consensus around this that includes “authorities”; 2. Yes there were bad actors but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water; 3. Those arguing for using race to measure people are comparable to early EAers developing the INT criteria for measuring the impact of health and wellbeing interventions?
Also, could you further develop, “Opinions that are stupid are going to be clearly stupid.” and criteria for this?
I might be way off here, but if so then please help me understand.
I dont think timunderwood was suspicious about the claim that racism is bad. It seems they explicitly said they believe racism is bad.
If it was true that there is some genetic component to the iq gap, what would happen? Would the universe be racist?
I dont know what the cause of the iq gap is. I think that there is >1% chance that genetics play some role. I dont think that is racists. I dont want any black people to suffer because of that. I hope that we can improve the lives of all sentient beings, including people of all skin colours.
Is the issue simply that we dont agree what racism means?
″ Some people are good at noticing when the authorities around them and their social community and the people on their side are making bad arguments. These people are valuable. They notice important things. They point out when the emperor has no clothes. And they literally built the EA movement.”
Just so I understand,
1. Part of your suspicion of the “racism is both bad and a pseudoscience” is that there is a consensus around this that includes “authorities”;
2. Yes there were bad actors but we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water;
3. Those arguing for using race to measure people are comparable to early EAers developing the INT criteria for measuring the impact of health and wellbeing interventions?
Also, could you further develop, “Opinions that are stupid are going to be clearly stupid.” and criteria for this?
I might be way off here, but if so then please help me understand.
I dont think timunderwood was suspicious about the claim that racism is bad. It seems they explicitly said they believe racism is bad.
If it was true that there is some genetic component to the iq gap, what would happen? Would the universe be racist?
I dont know what the cause of the iq gap is. I think that there is >1% chance that genetics play some role. I dont think that is racists. I dont want any black people to suffer because of that. I hope that we can improve the lives of all sentient beings, including people of all skin colours.
Is the issue simply that we dont agree what racism means?