I’ve upvoted some low quality criticism of EA. Some of this is due to emotional biases or whatever, but a reason I still endorse is that I haven’t read strong responses to some obvious criticism.
Example: I currently believe that an important reason EA is slightly uninclusive and moderately undiverse is because EA community-building was targeted at people with a lot of power as a necessary strategic move. Rich people, top university students, etc. It feels like it’s worked, but I haven’t seen a good writeup of the effects of this.
I think the same low-quality criticisms keep popping up because there’s no quick rebuttal. I wish there were a post of “fallacies about problems with EA” that one could quickly link to.
I’ve upvoted some low quality criticism of EA. Some of this is due to emotional biases or whatever, but a reason I still endorse is that I haven’t read strong responses to some obvious criticism.
Example: I currently believe that an important reason EA is slightly uninclusive and moderately undiverse is because EA community-building was targeted at people with a lot of power as a necessary strategic move. Rich people, top university students, etc. It feels like it’s worked, but I haven’t seen a good writeup of the effects of this.
I think the same low-quality criticisms keep popping up because there’s no quick rebuttal. I wish there were a post of “fallacies about problems with EA” that one could quickly link to.