Glad you didn’t see any factual error in the posts!
#1, Yeah, you’re totally right that “bioethicists” is the wrong target. Will try to use “institutionalized research ethics” going forward. It is much more explicit about what the problem is and more fair to bioethicists.
re #2, sort of agreed. I tend to think the public doesn’t like weird ideas in general, but there was a recent paper showing higher public support for challenge trials than traditional trials. So I’m not sure what counts as weird to the public as a whole. It might be the case that the public has surprisingly EA-ish ideas on medical ethics, at least on this specific issue. Not sure.
I hope the public is generally receptive to EA-style thinking, and there is some indication of it at least. I do still worry that when it comes to appeal-to-authority type reasoning, the public will find “bioethicists” more trustworthy, even if they are relatively disposed to agreeing with our ideas. I could be wrong on that, it is a fairly speculative harm.
Glad you didn’t see any factual error in the posts!
#1, Yeah, you’re totally right that “bioethicists” is the wrong target. Will try to use “institutionalized research ethics” going forward. It is much more explicit about what the problem is and more fair to bioethicists.
re #2, sort of agreed. I tend to think the public doesn’t like weird ideas in general, but there was a recent paper showing higher public support for challenge trials than traditional trials. So I’m not sure what counts as weird to the public as a whole. It might be the case that the public has surprisingly EA-ish ideas on medical ethics, at least on this specific issue. Not sure.
I appreciate it!
I hope the public is generally receptive to EA-style thinking, and there is some indication of it at least. I do still worry that when it comes to appeal-to-authority type reasoning, the public will find “bioethicists” more trustworthy, even if they are relatively disposed to agreeing with our ideas. I could be wrong on that, it is a fairly speculative harm.