I am very sorry you feel that way. I hope that by starting off my comment with “My apologies for the extended delay in response! I appreciate the engagement” I’m not indicating I’m “toxic” and “borderline abusive.”
It’s very concerning to see continual inaction on these matters since I care about the future of this movement and the world, so when bringing up long unaddressed problems (which you seem to be implicitly recognizing as somewhat valid) I don’t think it’s unreasonable to take a more critical tone. I’m fairly confident I can find a lot of content that is written in much more severe a manner on this forum and most certainly on LessWrong.
How exactly am I “raiding EA norms?” In my communication style and terminology? Doesn’t seem like a problem to me even if that was the case.
I literally just don’t want Aaron G. or someone else to spend time on this (Aaron’s comment was lavish and I think other eyeballs and thoughts will spend time on this).
You wish for people to ignore legitimate feedback, and to suppress it with downvoting? That doesn’t sound like a way for a movement to improve. I do appreciate Aaron’s engagement. While I think he may have misunderstood certain points I was trying to make, his information was legitimately helpful, nonetheless as indicated by the other commenter on this thread.
While this may not get much engagement, as you seem to recognize, there are very legitimate issues here, and a complete lack of action on multiple fronts. My views most certainly mirror those in the community, even recent EA forum posts alluding at similar ideas.
I think that pointing out legitimate areas of potential improvement should be valued in communities, and it should be acceptable to take somewhat critical tones as long as the intent is to not cause any emotional harm.
Unfortunately I don’t have an unlimited amount of time every day to refine my tone and write detailed writeups on the lack of progress happening on several key fronts, given my low confidence that this is sufficient to induce change, as evidenced by all of the “existing criticism” that you are talking about.
Hi Charles,
I am very sorry you feel that way. I hope that by starting off my comment with “My apologies for the extended delay in response! I appreciate the engagement” I’m not indicating I’m “toxic” and “borderline abusive.”
It’s very concerning to see continual inaction on these matters since I care about the future of this movement and the world, so when bringing up long unaddressed problems (which you seem to be implicitly recognizing as somewhat valid) I don’t think it’s unreasonable to take a more critical tone. I’m fairly confident I can find a lot of content that is written in much more severe a manner on this forum and most certainly on LessWrong.
How exactly am I “raiding EA norms?” In my communication style and terminology? Doesn’t seem like a problem to me even if that was the case.
You wish for people to ignore legitimate feedback, and to suppress it with downvoting? That doesn’t sound like a way for a movement to improve. I do appreciate Aaron’s engagement. While I think he may have misunderstood certain points I was trying to make, his information was legitimately helpful, nonetheless as indicated by the other commenter on this thread.
While this may not get much engagement, as you seem to recognize, there are very legitimate issues here, and a complete lack of action on multiple fronts. My views most certainly mirror those in the community, even recent EA forum posts alluding at similar ideas.
I think that pointing out legitimate areas of potential improvement should be valued in communities, and it should be acceptable to take somewhat critical tones as long as the intent is to not cause any emotional harm.
Unfortunately I don’t have an unlimited amount of time every day to refine my tone and write detailed writeups on the lack of progress happening on several key fronts, given my low confidence that this is sufficient to induce change, as evidenced by all of the “existing criticism” that you are talking about.