I think it’s just really hard to say “don’t discuss that” without nixing a lot of other useful discussion too. I wish there were a way to stop just racism, but already it’s been implied that guests associated with genetics (Steve Hsu, the Collinses, etc) are also trafficking in unacceptable ideas. Should that be banned as well?
And if we’d taken this view 20 years ago we could be in a different place today. Singer advocates for disabled children to be killed, Bostrom partly advocates for a global police state, Yudkowsky doesn’t think that babies are conscious. If we ignored all ideas that came from or near people with awful ideas, we would have lost a lot of ideas we now value.
If you want me to say “I don’t like Hanania” I will say it. But if you want me to say “Manifest is bad because they invited 40 people who could conceivably be racist” then no, I don’t endorse that.
I think it’s just really hard to say “don’t discuss that” without nixing a lot of other useful discussion too. I wish there were a way to stop just racism, but already it’s been implied that guests associated with genetics (Steve Hsu, the Collinses, etc) are also trafficking in unacceptable ideas. Should that be banned as well?
And if we’d taken this view 20 years ago we could be in a different place today. Singer advocates for disabled children to be killed, Bostrom partly advocates for a global police state, Yudkowsky doesn’t think that babies are conscious. If we ignored all ideas that came from or near people with awful ideas, we would have lost a lot of ideas we now value.
If you want me to say “I don’t like Hanania” I will say it. But if you want me to say “Manifest is bad because they invited 40 people who could conceivably be racist” then no, I don’t endorse that.