I’d be very interested to know if there are posts that both criticize something EA in a cogent way as this post does and don’t receive large numbers of downvotes.
To add to Ben’s example, one of the most upvoted posts of all time was critical of discrepancy between the message that working at EA org is a promising career path and the fact that it’s extremely hard to get a job at an EA org. There was probably an element of people empathising with the story but I still think it ‘criticised something EA in a cogent way’.
FWIW, I think the EA community is unusually good at engaging with critical commentary and updating accordingly.
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To add to Ben’s example, one of the most upvoted posts of all time was critical of discrepancy between the message that working at EA org is a promising career path and the fact that it’s extremely hard to get a job at an EA org. There was probably an element of people empathising with the story but I still think it ‘criticised something EA in a cogent way’.
FWIW, I think the EA community is unusually good at engaging with critical commentary and updating accordingly.