Interesting! When I read oldemail.pdf, I thought he pretty loudly was damning with faint praise toward arguments against race/IQ correlation, which made me respect his epistemic integrity less. It just felt like a lotta kayfabe to me, even though I understand not wanting to write an in-depth viewpoint that’s out of one’s area of expertise. Hard problem: the epistemic integrity response to race/IQ discourse is to believe true things, to ignore people who think empirical facts are identities (and face the political consequences head on!) or who haven’t internalized the is/ought distinction, but that means some serious engagement with what is in this case a thankless literature.
I know you didn’t wanna make this about the object level race/IQ thing, so sorry if that’s what I’m doing, I meant to write about our differing assessments of his epistemic integrity. There’s a lot of understandable brain poison around this topic.
Leadership/Influencers/Elites should learn towards epistemic responsibility at the cost of integrity due to network effects
Bostrom has graduated from being just an academic to a thought leader and pretty influential figure in the movement, getting mainstream media attention. It makes sense for him, at this point in his career, to make the statement that he did regardless of his views on the topic.
Interesting! When I read
oldemail.pdf, I thought he pretty loudly was damning with faint praise toward arguments against race/IQ correlation, which made me respect his epistemic integrity less. It just felt like a lotta kayfabe to me, even though I understand not wanting to write an in-depth viewpoint that’s out of one’s area of expertise. Hard problem: the epistemic integrity response to race/IQ discourse is to believe true things, to ignore people who think empirical facts are identities (and face the political consequences head on!) or who haven’t internalized the is/ought distinction, but that means some serious engagement with what is in this case a thankless literature.I know you didn’t wanna make this about the object level race/IQ thing, so sorry if that’s what I’m doing, I meant to write about our differing assessments of his epistemic integrity. There’s a lot of understandable brain poison around this topic.
Yeah, I can’t particularly discuss this given my stated preferences to avoid race/IQ discussion.
Academics lean towards epistemic integrity
Leadership/Influencers/Elites should learn towards epistemic responsibility at the cost of integrity due to network effects
Bostrom has graduated from being just an academic to a thought leader and pretty influential figure in the movement, getting mainstream media attention. It makes sense for him, at this point in his career, to make the statement that he did regardless of his views on the topic.