Really depends on context and I don’t recall a concrete example of the community going awry here. You’re proposing this as a change to EA, but I’m not sure it isn’t already true.
If you compare apples to apples, a paper and a blog answering the same question, and the blog does not cite the paper, then sure the paper is better. But usually there are good contextual reasons for referring to blogs.
Also, peer review is pretty crappy, the main thing is having an academic sit down and write very carefully.
So who does one defer to on the question of what God wants? Mormons, Moslems, Buddhists? There’s plenty of peer reviewed theology for all of the world religions. If there’s a hell, and experts in many faiths agree there is, destroying it is surely the EA cause.
There are academic disciplines that make some attempts at scientific norms that are so lopsidedly ideological that all their findings should be considered suspect, e.g social psychology or anthropology. People can have good reasons to very heavily discount academic research.
Peer reviewed academic research on a given subject should be given higher credence than blogposts by EA friendly sources.
Seems highly dependent of the subject, how established the field is
Really depends on context and I don’t recall a concrete example of the community going awry here. You’re proposing this as a change to EA, but I’m not sure it isn’t already true.
If you compare apples to apples, a paper and a blog answering the same question, and the blog does not cite the paper, then sure the paper is better. But usually there are good contextual reasons for referring to blogs.
Also, peer review is pretty crappy, the main thing is having an academic sit down and write very carefully.
So who does one defer to on the question of what God wants? Mormons, Moslems, Buddhists? There’s plenty of peer reviewed theology for all of the world religions. If there’s a hell, and experts in many faiths agree there is, destroying it is surely the EA cause.
There are academic disciplines that make some attempts at scientific norms that are so lopsidedly ideological that all their findings should be considered suspect, e.g social psychology or anthropology. People can have good reasons to very heavily discount academic research.