I actually think EA is extremely well positioned to eat that take, digest it, become immensely stronger as a result of it, remain standing as the only great scourge-pilled moral community, immune to preference falsification cascades, members henceforth unrelentingly straightforward and authentic about what their values are, and so, more likely to effectively pursue them, instead of fake values that they don’t hold.
Because:
Most movements operate through voting. We instead tend to operate through philanthropy (often anonymized philanthropy) and career change, which each require an easily quantifiable sacrifice, they’re much closer to being unfakable signals of revealed preference.
EA is sort of built on the foundation of rationalism where eating nasty truths and accepting nasty truthtellers is a norm.
A lot of that theory also makes negotiating peace between conflicting factions easier. Statistics and decision theory form a basis and an intro to economic theory and cooperative bargaining theory, for instance. And the orthogonality thesis, the claim that an intelligent thing can also have values that conflict with ours, is also the claim that a person with values that conflict with ours can be intelligent (and so worthy of respect)!
I actually think EA is extremely well positioned to eat that take, digest it, become immensely stronger as a result of it, remain standing as the only great scourge-pilled moral community, immune to preference falsification cascades, members henceforth unrelentingly straightforward and authentic about what their values are, and so, more likely to effectively pursue them, instead of fake values that they don’t hold.
Because:
Most movements operate through voting. We instead tend to operate through philanthropy (often anonymized philanthropy) and career change, which each require an easily quantifiable sacrifice, they’re much closer to being unfakable signals of revealed preference.
EA is sort of built on the foundation of rationalism where eating nasty truths and accepting nasty truthtellers is a norm.
A lot of that theory also makes negotiating peace between conflicting factions easier. Statistics and decision theory form a basis and an intro to economic theory and cooperative bargaining theory, for instance. And the orthogonality thesis, the claim that an intelligent thing can also have values that conflict with ours, is also the claim that a person with values that conflict with ours can be intelligent (and so worthy of respect)!