To be honest “straight white male” feels a bit like a cached thought to me. Are you sure that the number of EAs who are gay or bi would be less than the population distribution or less than the population distribution among the educated classes? It wouldn’t surprise me if it were more.
Am I right in interpreting “cached thought” as, “something I think about a lot, and need to get out”? I seriously apologise if that offends you (and I mean that seriously, I’m not being sarcastic) but I find it hard to say that the faces of EA aren’t overwhelmingly white, wealthy males. You might be right on the LGBT point—I must confess that I’m new to the community and haven’t met anyone who self-identifies as an “effective altruist” yet. I’d still say that I think race and class background differences will alienate people if we keep going this way.
My point is that I’ve found people who come from leftist spaces sometimes have a tendency of saying a space is full of “straight white males” because that’s a catchy phrase without checking all three of the predicates to see if they match the particular context.
To be honest “straight white male” feels a bit like a cached thought to me. Are you sure that the number of EAs who are gay or bi would be less than the population distribution or less than the population distribution among the educated classes? It wouldn’t surprise me if it were more.
Anecdotally, the EAs I know are more queer, MUCH more white, more male, and richer even compared to other people I know from the educated classes.
Am I right in interpreting “cached thought” as, “something I think about a lot, and need to get out”? I seriously apologise if that offends you (and I mean that seriously, I’m not being sarcastic) but I find it hard to say that the faces of EA aren’t overwhelmingly white, wealthy males. You might be right on the LGBT point—I must confess that I’m new to the community and haven’t met anyone who self-identifies as an “effective altruist” yet. I’d still say that I think race and class background differences will alienate people if we keep going this way.
Sorry, that’s not ever I meant. See the article here for a definition of cached thoughts: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/cached-thoughts#:~:text=Cached Thoughts are ideas%2C attitudes,t re-evaluated since then.
My point is that I’ve found people who come from leftist spaces sometimes have a tendency of saying a space is full of “straight white males” because that’s a catchy phrase without checking all three of the predicates to see if they match the particular context.