Maybe another way to frame this is ‘have a Chesterton’s fence around ideologies you dismiss’ - like, you can only decide that you don’t care about ideologies once you’ve fully understood them. I think in many cases, EAs are dismissing criticisms without fully understanding why people are making them, which leads them to see the whole situation as ‘oh those other people are just low decouplers/worried about PR’, rather than ‘they take the critique somewhat seriously but for reasons that aren’t easily articulable within standard EA ethical frameworks’.
Maybe another way to frame this is ‘have a Chesterton’s fence around ideologies you dismiss’ - like, you can only decide that you don’t care about ideologies once you’ve fully understood them. I think in many cases, EAs are dismissing criticisms without fully understanding why people are making them, which leads them to see the whole situation as ‘oh those other people are just low decouplers/worried about PR’, rather than ‘they take the critique somewhat seriously but for reasons that aren’t easily articulable within standard EA ethical frameworks’.