I won’t start the discussion here, but I continue to think that we’d be better off systematically if we took the rule of de-privileging optics-based reasoning even if it’s better in individual situations. I appreciate that this is controversial.
To be clear I’m not unpersuaded by that argument you make. I find it plausible. How much to care about optics is a spectrum and I think it’s clear we should care some, but probably care less than most groups. I think there are some clear areas though where we could achieve significant benefit with not much cost by doing some things though. I also think we should make these trade-offs intentionally, whereas we currently seem to have some sort of unawareness that leads to bad decisions.
I liked your high-trust post, but my take would be that the community might already be in a low-trust state right now, and the actions we need to take to move back to the ‘good actors/high trust’ quadrant[1] where we can do the most good may not be the same ones we would take if we were inthat state.
I’m not really thinking about the FTX situation when referring to lack of awareness around optics, but more the Bostrom apology controversy and the Wytham Abbey controversy.
I won’t start the discussion here, but I continue to think that we’d be better off systematically if we took the rule of de-privileging optics-based reasoning even if it’s better in individual situations. I appreciate that this is controversial.
To be clear I’m not unpersuaded by that argument you make. I find it plausible. How much to care about optics is a spectrum and I think it’s clear we should care some, but probably care less than most groups. I think there are some clear areas though where we could achieve significant benefit with not much cost by doing some things though. I also think we should make these trade-offs intentionally, whereas we currently seem to have some sort of unawareness that leads to bad decisions.
I don’t think we had unawareness, I think we had a lot of trust. And I’m very sad that it’s been damaged, and I think we should fight to keep it.
I liked your high-trust post, but my take would be that the community might already be in a low-trust state right now, and the actions we need to take to move back to the ‘good actors/high trust’ quadrant[1] where we can do the most good may not be the same ones we would take if we were in that state.
Taken from this comment.
I’m not really thinking about the FTX situation when referring to lack of awareness around optics, but more the Bostrom apology controversy and the Wytham Abbey controversy.