Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I’m very happy by the fact that you didn’t get upset with me for making them. I’m … trying to tone things down a bit at the start, and I think these are some of the topics that might cause a bit more controversy. I’m also continually impressed by the ability of EAs to have hard conversations. Maybe it’s time to start on some of these topics.
I’ll read your red-teaming contest submission shortly.
I think your very helpful and honest response about the status of women in the EA community is perhaps a good reason to talk about it: many people just aren’t paying much attention to these issues. I guess see this for the latest public problem-statement (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/t5vFLabB2mQz2tgDr/i-m-a-22-year-old-woman-involved-in-effective-altruism-i-m), although there’s a fairly long history of issues going back a few years, many of which received much poorer responses from the community.
I think maybe your point about epistemic status statements is an important one that I should fold in to the discussion of credence stating. I have a suspicion that just stating epistemic statuses may not be enough to secure good epistemic standings for a literature largely founded on blog posts and forum posts (and that it really would be better to have a higher proportion of published work). I’ll see what I can do to write something up about that, again conscious of the irony that I am typing these words on a forum post about my blog.
Thanks for being patient with me Noah! I enjoyed this discussion. (I’m going to be checking the EA forum less in the coming weeks, since I’m not always a regular here, but I’ll try to check back when I can).
I am working on a write-up that addresses climate change impacts differently than Halstead, but progress is slow because my attention and time are divided. I will share the work once it’s complete.
On most topics relevant to this forum’s readers, that is. For example, I haven’t found a good conversation on longevity control, and I’m not sure how appropriate it is to explore here, but I will note, briefly, that once people can choose to extend their lives, there will be a few ways that they can choose to end their lives, only one of which is growing old. Life extension technology poses indirect ethical and social challenges, and widespread use of it might have surprising consequences.
Thanks Noah, and sorry again for the late reply. (Vacation is over, so it’s back to work today).
I’ll do my best to run a series on the singularity hypothesis paper soon! (I’ve got a pretty big backlog, so it might be a few months, but the paper is up on the GPI website if you want to take a look before then: https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/against-the-singularity-hypothesis-david-thorstad/).
Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I’m very happy by the fact that you didn’t get upset with me for making them. I’m … trying to tone things down a bit at the start, and I think these are some of the topics that might cause a bit more controversy. I’m also continually impressed by the ability of EAs to have hard conversations. Maybe it’s time to start on some of these topics.
I’ll read your red-teaming contest submission shortly.
I think your very helpful and honest response about the status of women in the EA community is perhaps a good reason to talk about it: many people just aren’t paying much attention to these issues. I guess see this for the latest public problem-statement (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/t5vFLabB2mQz2tgDr/i-m-a-22-year-old-woman-involved-in-effective-altruism-i-m), although there’s a fairly long history of issues going back a few years, many of which received much poorer responses from the community.
I think maybe your point about epistemic status statements is an important one that I should fold in to the discussion of credence stating. I have a suspicion that just stating epistemic statuses may not be enough to secure good epistemic standings for a literature largely founded on blog posts and forum posts (and that it really would be better to have a higher proportion of published work). I’ll see what I can do to write something up about that, again conscious of the irony that I am typing these words on a forum post about my blog.
Thanks for being patient with me Noah! I enjoyed this discussion. (I’m going to be checking the EA forum less in the coming weeks, since I’m not always a regular here, but I’ll try to check back when I can).
Sure, you’re welcome, one day is not long for me to wait. My thoughts:
I’m interested in your thoughts on the singularity., and am looking forward to reading your article.
My red-team submission needs better arguments, more content, and concision.
*As far as the status of women in the community, if this is about social behavior, then I favor dissolution of the social community version of EA.
In case you follow up a bit more on the idea of cognitive aids.
Here’s my two takes on epistemic status:
how EA’s do it
how I do it in my daily life (I hope)
I am working on a write-up that addresses climate change impacts differently than Halstead, but progress is slow because my attention and time are divided. I will share the work once it’s complete.
Thanks Noah! Please do share.
Oh, I do! :)
On most topics relevant to this forum’s readers, that is. For example, I haven’t found a good conversation on longevity control, and I’m not sure how appropriate it is to explore here, but I will note, briefly, that once people can choose to extend their lives, there will be a few ways that they can choose to end their lives, only one of which is growing old. Life extension technology poses indirect ethical and social challenges, and widespread use of it might have surprising consequences.