This post quotes Scott Alexander on a tangent about as much as it does Richard Hannania to bolster minor points made in Hannania’s post by appealing to a bias in favour of Scott Alexander among effective altruists.
By linking to and so selectively quoting Hanania prominently, you’re trying to create an impression that the post should be trustworthy to effective altruists in spite of the errors and falsehoods about effective altruism in particular and just in general. Assuming you’ve made this post in reinforcing a truth-seeking agenda in a truth-seeking agenda, you’ve failed by propagating an abysmal perspective.
There are anti-woke viewpoints that have been well-received on the EA Forum but this isn’t one of them. Some of them haven’t been anonymous, so the fact that you had no reason to worry more about your reputation than ‘truth-seeking’ isn’t an excuse.
You would, could and should have done better if you had shared an original viewpoint really more familiar with effective altruism than Hannania is. May you take heed of this lesson for the next time you try to resolve disputes.
Considering an EA group leader said that they would permanently ban anyone who brought up some of these topics, I am content in my choice of anonymity.
This doesn’t appear to be a good faith response. It doesn’t address any of the ideas presented, just takes issue with OP “selectively quoting” and being Anon, which based on your contemptuous and dismissive response seems totally understandable to me .
You would, could, and should have done better with an honest response of an upvote and a comment, “yep, these ideas are way too taboo for us to touch.”
Strongly downvoted.
This post quotes Scott Alexander on a tangent about as much as it does Richard Hannania to bolster minor points made in Hannania’s post by appealing to a bias in favour of Scott Alexander among effective altruists.
By linking to and so selectively quoting Hanania prominently, you’re trying to create an impression that the post should be trustworthy to effective altruists in spite of the errors and falsehoods about effective altruism in particular and just in general. Assuming you’ve made this post in reinforcing a truth-seeking agenda in a truth-seeking agenda, you’ve failed by propagating an abysmal perspective.
There are anti-woke viewpoints that have been well-received on the EA Forum but this isn’t one of them. Some of them haven’t been anonymous, so the fact that you had no reason to worry more about your reputation than ‘truth-seeking’ isn’t an excuse.
You would, could and should have done better if you had shared an original viewpoint really more familiar with effective altruism than Hannania is. May you take heed of this lesson for the next time you try to resolve disputes.
Considering an EA group leader said that they would permanently ban anyone who brought up some of these topics, I am content in my choice of anonymity.
Strongly downvoted.
This doesn’t appear to be a good faith response. It doesn’t address any of the ideas presented, just takes issue with OP “selectively quoting” and being Anon, which based on your contemptuous and dismissive response seems totally understandable to me .
You would, could, and should have done better with an honest response of an upvote and a comment, “yep, these ideas are way too taboo for us to touch.”