Don’t you think asking GiveWell to either add a disclaimer to posts they disagree with or take them down is a reasonable thing to ask for? I think that could be pretty useful, personally.
EDIT: Also I didn’t infer that this is still Holden’s style because Sanjay says it’s not in the first paragraph.
Yes, these seem like reasonable things to ask for (though I don’t know feel like I have enough information to know if they’d be right to comply with the request) - emailing GW about them seem like sensible things to do. It seems like quite an escalation of the request to write a blog post in this vein though.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think I’ve seen this post referenced twice in the last few weeks as justification for people’s poor behaviour on the Forum, so I think it’s really important that there’s a clear message that people shouldn’t be really blunt and call others “crybabies” if they’re uncomfortable, but there may have been even kinder ways to approach it.
I think this conversation shows that unkind feedback is no longer welcome in the EA community though, which is a good signal to send!
I assume one of the references you mentioned is in this comment. Do you happen to remember where else it was brought up?
If I could see that comment, I’d want to leave a reply to push against it, since I think the crybaby article is terrible and not a mindset the Forum should encourage at all.
Don’t you think asking GiveWell to either add a disclaimer to posts they disagree with or take them down is a reasonable thing to ask for? I think that could be pretty useful, personally.
EDIT: Also I didn’t infer that this is still Holden’s style because Sanjay says it’s not in the first paragraph.
Yes, these seem like reasonable things to ask for (though I don’t know feel like I have enough information to know if they’d be right to comply with the request) - emailing GW about them seem like sensible things to do. It seems like quite an escalation of the request to write a blog post in this vein though.
Yeah, that makes sense. I think I’ve seen this post referenced twice in the last few weeks as justification for people’s poor behaviour on the Forum, so I think it’s really important that there’s a clear message that people shouldn’t be really blunt and call others “crybabies” if they’re uncomfortable, but there may have been even kinder ways to approach it.
I think this conversation shows that unkind feedback is no longer welcome in the EA community though, which is a good signal to send!
I assume one of the references you mentioned is in this comment. Do you happen to remember where else it was brought up?
If I could see that comment, I’d want to leave a reply to push against it, since I think the crybaby article is terrible and not a mindset the Forum should encourage at all.
Yes, that was one! I thought there might have been another on the Robin Hanson thread but I don’t see it with a quick skim so maybe not