My views on what EA should learn from this event is the following:
EA needs to articulate what moral views or moral values it will not accept in the pursuit of it’s goals. I don’t believe EA can consider every moral point valid due to the Paradox of Tolerance. Thus, moderators and administrators need to start working on what values or moral viewpoints it will not accept, and it will need to be willing to ban or cancel people who violate this policy.
EA has an apology problem. Titotal has a good post on it, but a lot of apologies tend to be bad. Linking the post,
Okay, let’s go over the rules for an apology to be genuine and sincere. I’ll take them from here.
Acknowledge the offense.
Explain what happened.
Express remorse.
Offer to make amends.
Notably missing from this list is step 5: Go off on an unrelated tangent about eugenics.
Basically, EAs need to apologize way better than they are currently doing.
Finally, I thank CEA for disavowing his racist email fast, and while I think it isn’t perfect, I believe a lot of the criticism of CEA is misguided IMO.
My views on what EA should learn from this event is the following:
EA needs to articulate what moral views or moral values it will not accept in the pursuit of it’s goals. I don’t believe EA can consider every moral point valid due to the Paradox of Tolerance. Thus, moderators and administrators need to start working on what values or moral viewpoints it will not accept, and it will need to be willing to ban or cancel people who violate this policy.
EA has an apology problem. Titotal has a good post on it, but a lot of apologies tend to be bad. Linking the post,
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KB8XPfh7dJ9uJaaDs/does-ea-understand-how-to-apologize-for-things
And quoting a section:
Basically, EAs need to apologize way better than they are currently doing.
Finally, I thank CEA for disavowing his racist email fast, and while I think it isn’t perfect, I believe a lot of the criticism of CEA is misguided IMO.