There are definitely some criticisms that suggest that you might not be value-aligned, but for most of the ones I can think of it seems kind of legitimate to take them into account. e.g. “Given that you wrote the post ‘Why animal suffering is totally irrelevant’, why did you apply to work at ACE?”
Yeah in contrast I would generally expect a post called “Statistical errors and a lack of biological expertise mean ACE have massively over-estimated chicken suffering relative to fish” to be a positive signal, even though it is clearly very critical.
Yeah in contrast I would generally expect a post called “Statistical errors and a lack of biological expertise mean ACE have massively over-estimated chicken suffering relative to fish” to be a positive signal, even though it is clearly very critical.