I’m all for criticising organizations without having your post vetted by them. But at some point, it is useful to reach out to them to let them know your criticism, if you want it to to be useful, and it seems like you’ve now well-passed this point.
I agree that people should be allowed to give criticism without talking to the critiqued organizations first. It does usually improve informativeness and persuasiveness, but if we required every critique to be of extremely high journalistic quality then we would never get any criticism done, so we have a lower standard.
By this point, though, the thread has created enough discussion that at least some of OpenPhil are probably reading it. Still you’re effectively talking about them as though they’re not in the room, even though they are. The fix is to email them a link, and to try to give arguments that you think they would appreciate as input for how they could improve their activities.
The fix is to email them a link, and to try to give arguments that you think they would appreciate as input for how they could improve their activities.
Those arguments are in the post.
I am writing under a pseudonym so I don’t have an easy way of emailing them without it going to their spam folder. I have sent an email pointing them to the post, though.
I’m all for criticising organizations without having your post vetted by them. But at some point, it is useful to reach out to them to let them know your criticism, if you want it to to be useful, and it seems like you’ve now well-passed this point.
Can you elaborate?
I agree that people should be allowed to give criticism without talking to the critiqued organizations first. It does usually improve informativeness and persuasiveness, but if we required every critique to be of extremely high journalistic quality then we would never get any criticism done, so we have a lower standard.
By this point, though, the thread has created enough discussion that at least some of OpenPhil are probably reading it. Still you’re effectively talking about them as though they’re not in the room, even though they are. The fix is to email them a link, and to try to give arguments that you think they would appreciate as input for how they could improve their activities.
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Those arguments are in the post.
I am writing under a pseudonym so I don’t have an easy way of emailing them without it going to their spam folder. I have sent an email pointing them to the post, though.