On the philosophical side paragraph—totally agree; this is why worldview diversification makes so much sense (to me). The necessity of certain assumptions leads to divergence of kinds of work, and that is a very good thing, because maybe (almost certainly) we are wrong in various ways, and we want to be alive and open to new things that might be important. Perhaps on the margin an individual’s most rational action could sometimes be to defer more, but as a whole, a movement like EA would be more resilient with less deference.
Disclaimer: I personally find myself very turned off by the deference culture in EA. Maybe that’s just the way it should be though.
I do think that higher deference cultures are better at cooperating and getting things done—and these are no easy tasks for large movements. There have also been movements that have done terrible things in the past, accidentally, with these properties. There have also been movements that have done wonderful things, with these properties.
I’d guess there may be a correlation between people who think there should be more deference being in the “row” camp and people who think less in the “steer” camp, or another camp, described here.
On the philosophical side paragraph—totally agree; this is why worldview diversification makes so much sense (to me). The necessity of certain assumptions leads to divergence of kinds of work, and that is a very good thing, because maybe (almost certainly) we are wrong in various ways, and we want to be alive and open to new things that might be important. Perhaps on the margin an individual’s most rational action could sometimes be to defer more, but as a whole, a movement like EA would be more resilient with less deference.
Disclaimer: I personally find myself very turned off by the deference culture in EA. Maybe that’s just the way it should be though.
I do think that higher deference cultures are better at cooperating and getting things done—and these are no easy tasks for large movements. There have also been movements that have done terrible things in the past, accidentally, with these properties. There have also been movements that have done wonderful things, with these properties.
I’d guess there may be a correlation between people who think there should be more deference being in the “row” camp and people who think less in the “steer” camp, or another camp, described here.