You seem to be really hung up on the term “sexist” and I think I get that. I think it’s very clear there is unintentional and unconscious sexism in the EA movement, like there is everywhere else. I’m not calling anyone bad. But I am going to throw a “Isolated Demand For Rigor, Five Yard Penalty” at your argument here.
Of course there’s sexism (unconscious and otherwise) in the EA movement.
But with the very strong caveat that I believe citing logical fallacies can lead to nothing more productive than arguments over whether the fallacy was correctly cited, I submit that this whole thread is a discussion about whether sexism is more than averagely prevalent in EA (for healthy reference classes), and, therefore whether EAs should put more resources into the problem.
In that context, I would argue the latter is the isolated demand for rigour, for which I’m making an in-context demand for justification.
[ETA: for the record I weakly agree that we should put more resources into the problem. I just don’t want us to sabotage our epistemics while making that determination]
I’m sorry I’m very confused what we are supposed to be discussing. I thought earlier you were arguing that there’s no sexism in EA because people who are interrupting women could just be interrupting people with lower height or just interrupting everyone equally. I was arguing against that.
I’m personally not saying “EA is more sexist than relevant reference classes”. I don’t think I believe that, or it would depend a lot on the reference class… and there appears to be notable within-EA variation.
I probably am saying “we should put more resources into figuring out sexism in EA”, but that’s not what I thought we were talking about, and of course I’d want to think a lot more about what that’s supposed to look like, what “more” means, what “resources” means, what “figuring out sexism” means, etc.
I certainly didn’t mean to claim that. I’ve known of multiple examples of sexism in EA. I think the comment to which I originally replied might not have been another such example, and wanted to guard against assuming it was.
You seem to be really hung up on the term “sexist” and I think I get that. I think it’s very clear there is unintentional and unconscious sexism in the EA movement, like there is everywhere else. I’m not calling anyone bad. But I am going to throw a “Isolated Demand For Rigor, Five Yard Penalty” at your argument here.
Of course there’s sexism (unconscious and otherwise) in the EA movement.
But with the very strong caveat that I believe citing logical fallacies can lead to nothing more productive than arguments over whether the fallacy was correctly cited, I submit that this whole thread is a discussion about whether sexism is more than averagely prevalent in EA (for healthy reference classes), and, therefore whether EAs should put more resources into the problem.
In that context, I would argue the latter is the isolated demand for rigour, for which I’m making an in-context demand for justification.
[ETA: for the record I weakly agree that we should put more resources into the problem. I just don’t want us to sabotage our epistemics while making that determination]
I’m sorry I’m very confused what we are supposed to be discussing. I thought earlier you were arguing that there’s no sexism in EA because people who are interrupting women could just be interrupting people with lower height or just interrupting everyone equally. I was arguing against that.
I’m personally not saying “EA is more sexist than relevant reference classes”. I don’t think I believe that, or it would depend a lot on the reference class… and there appears to be notable within-EA variation.
I probably am saying “we should put more resources into figuring out sexism in EA”, but that’s not what I thought we were talking about, and of course I’d want to think a lot more about what that’s supposed to look like, what “more” means, what “resources” means, what “figuring out sexism” means, etc.
I certainly didn’t mean to claim that. I’ve known of multiple examples of sexism in EA. I think the comment to which I originally replied might not have been another such example, and wanted to guard against assuming it was.