Putting them in double quotes makes it look like they are meant to be direct quotations. Could you give some examples of things people have actually said that you are trying to refer to here? These specific examples sound sufficiently different from how people typically talk that I’m not sure what actual phenomena you’re trying to pick out.
I saw a job application ask whether the applicant is vegan as a proxy for how EA they were, even though the job wasn’t substantively related to veganism.
And I’ve seen people effectively argue “how will we know who the EAs are if not everyone donates 10%?” which could be explained as just wanting to see a costly signal or as wanting to retain their own position of superiority or a bit of both.
(Good call on the quotationn marks, I’ve removed them)
Putting them in double quotes makes it look like they are meant to be direct quotations. Could you give some examples of things people have actually said that you are trying to refer to here? These specific examples sound sufficiently different from how people typically talk that I’m not sure what actual phenomena you’re trying to pick out.
I saw a job application ask whether the applicant is vegan as a proxy for how EA they were, even though the job wasn’t substantively related to veganism.
And I’ve seen people effectively argue “how will we know who the EAs are if not everyone donates 10%?” which could be explained as just wanting to see a costly signal or as wanting to retain their own position of superiority or a bit of both.
(Good call on the quotationn marks, I’ve removed them)
Thanks for the examples. Asking about being a vegan on a job ad does seem a bit obnoxious (unless the job was like vegan advocacy or something).