While I agree with this question in the particular, there’s a real difficulty because absence of evidence is only weak evidence of absence with this kind of thing.
There are allegations of this occurring in the doing EA better post. Ironically, if this is occurring, then it easily explains why we don’t have concrete evidence of it yet: people would be worried about their jobs/careers.
Can you point me to where? I don’t have time to read the post in full, and searching ‘pressure’ didn’t find anything that looked relevant (I saw something about funding being somewhat conditional on not criticising core beliefs, but didn’t see anything about employees specifically feeling so constrained).
Employees of EA organisations should not be pressured by their superiors against publishing work critical of core beliefs.
Is there evidence that they are?
While I agree with this question in the particular, there’s a real difficulty because absence of evidence is only weak evidence of absence with this kind of thing.
There are allegations of this occurring in the doing EA better post. Ironically, if this is occurring, then it easily explains why we don’t have concrete evidence of it yet: people would be worried about their jobs/careers.
Can you point me to where? I don’t have time to read the post in full, and searching ‘pressure’ didn’t find anything that looked relevant (I saw something about funding being somewhat conditional on not criticising core beliefs, but didn’t see anything about employees specifically feeling so constrained).