When they asked a different Bay Area rationality organiser, they were told that their talk on diversity may have been “epistemically weak” and “not truth-seeking” enough.
So, to clarify, a guess from an unrelated party about why this talk might have resulted in a lack of an invitation pattern-matched to language used by other people in a way that has no (obvious to me) relationship to blacklists...?
I’m not sure what this was intended to demonstrate.
I am curious how you would distinguish a blacklist from the normal functioning of an organization when making hiring decisions. I guess maybe “a list of names with no details as to why you want to avoid hiring them” passed around between organizations would qualify as the first but not the second? I obviously can’t say with surety that no such thing exists elsewhere, but I would be pretty surprised to learn about any major organizations using one.
I should have made this clearer. My claim (also informed other anecdotes that I should have shared) is that people are put on blacklists for trivial reasons (eg, I don’t like what this person said, they seem too “woke”, they spoke badly about a friend of mine one time) but camouflaged under someone having “weak epistemics” or not being “truth-seeking enough”.
I’m not sure as I haven’t ever made a blacklist or seen other people’s blacklists. A blacklist to me seems something that either has (1) no reason or (2) a very weak reason—maybe that’s camouflaged in something else (perhaps in rationalist language as described in Point #1).
So, to clarify, a guess from an unrelated party about why this talk might have resulted in a lack of an invitation pattern-matched to language used by other people in a way that has no (obvious to me) relationship to blacklists...?
I’m not sure what this was intended to demonstrate.
I am curious how you would distinguish a blacklist from the normal functioning of an organization when making hiring decisions. I guess maybe “a list of names with no details as to why you want to avoid hiring them” passed around between organizations would qualify as the first but not the second? I obviously can’t say with surety that no such thing exists elsewhere, but I would be pretty surprised to learn about any major organizations using one.
I should have made this clearer. My claim (also informed other anecdotes that I should have shared) is that people are put on blacklists for trivial reasons (eg, I don’t like what this person said, they seem too “woke”, they spoke badly about a friend of mine one time) but camouflaged under someone having “weak epistemics” or not being “truth-seeking enough”.
I’m not sure as I haven’t ever made a blacklist or seen other people’s blacklists. A blacklist to me seems something that either has (1) no reason or (2) a very weak reason—maybe that’s camouflaged in something else (perhaps in rationalist language as described in Point #1).