Vague agree with the framing of questions vs. answers, but I feel worried that “answer-based communities” are quite divergent from the epistemic culture of EA. Like, religions are answer-based communities but a lot of EAs would dispute that EA is a religion or that it is prescriptive in that way.
Not sure how exactly this fits into what you wrote, but figured I should register it.
I feel worried that “answer-based communities” are quite divergent from the epistemic culture of EA
I don’t feel worried about that. I feel worried that this post frames neartermist-leaning orgs (like the OP’s) as question-based i.e. as having an EA epistemic culture, while longtermist-leaning orgs are framed as answer-based i.e. as having an un-EA epistemic culture withoutgoodreason.
Vague agree with the framing of questions vs. answers, but I feel worried that “answer-based communities” are quite divergent from the epistemic culture of EA. Like, religions are answer-based communities but a lot of EAs would dispute that EA is a religion or that it is prescriptive in that way.
Not sure how exactly this fits into what you wrote, but figured I should register it.
I don’t feel worried about that. I feel worried that this post frames neartermist-leaning orgs (like the OP’s) as question-based i.e. as having an EA epistemic culture, while longtermist-leaning orgs are framed as answer-based i.e. as having an un-EA epistemic culture without good reason.