I’ve seen some discourse on Twitter along the lines of “EA’s critics never seem to actually understand what we actually believe!” In some ways, this is better than critics understanding EA well and strongly opposing the movement anyway! But it does suggest to me that EA has a problem with messaging, and part of this might be that some EAs are more concerned with making technically-defensible and reasonable statements—which, to be clear, is important! - than with meeting non-EAs (or not-yet-EAs) where they’re at and empathizing with how weird some EA ideas seem at first glance.
Strong agree.
I’ve seen some discourse on Twitter along the lines of “EA’s critics never seem to actually understand what we actually believe!” In some ways, this is better than critics understanding EA well and strongly opposing the movement anyway! But it does suggest to me that EA has a problem with messaging, and part of this might be that some EAs are more concerned with making technically-defensible and reasonable statements—which, to be clear, is important! - than with meeting non-EAs (or not-yet-EAs) where they’re at and empathizing with how weird some EA ideas seem at first glance.