Thanks for your answers! (Both here and elsewhere in this AMA.)
Not sure if you’ll come back to answer followups, but on the off chance you might:
Regarding your answer to 1, what do you think the implications of that should be for rationalist/EA beliefs or behaviours? E.g., is it that you think we should ourselves spend more time reading journalists’ writing? That more of us should go into journalism ourselves? That we should donate more to support high-quality journalism? That we should just probably be doing something more in relation to journalism, so we should do some research or thinking to figure out what that is? Something else?
And regarding your answer to 3, it sounds like you’re actually saying that journalists quite often are out to destroy people, and that the mistake is just to assume that this is for the fun of it rather than because the journalist sincerely thinks it’s right to destroy those people?
Thanks for your answers! (Both here and elsewhere in this AMA.)
Not sure if you’ll come back to answer followups, but on the off chance you might:
Regarding your answer to 1, what do you think the implications of that should be for rationalist/EA beliefs or behaviours? E.g., is it that you think we should ourselves spend more time reading journalists’ writing? That more of us should go into journalism ourselves? That we should donate more to support high-quality journalism? That we should just probably be doing something more in relation to journalism, so we should do some research or thinking to figure out what that is? Something else?
And regarding your answer to 3, it sounds like you’re actually saying that journalists quite often are out to destroy people, and that the mistake is just to assume that this is for the fun of it rather than because the journalist sincerely thinks it’s right to destroy those people?