I don’t think people are thinking of it as “muhaha, now I can infiltrate EA orgs who don’t know my real views on anything”, I’m guessing it’s more that some people (a) haven’t thought through the upside of loudly signaling their views (to spark useful debates, and find like-minded EAs to team up with), or (b) haven’t thought through the downside of working at an EA org where you have to keep your real views about lots of important EA things a secret.
Thinking about it more, I could imagine a thing here like ‘EAs wanting to put their best foot forward’. Maybe you endorse a post you wrote, but you don’t think it reflects your very best work, so you’re wary of it being the first thing people see from you. Whereas once you’ve already proven yourself to someone, you might feel more comfortable sharing your full thinking with them; there’s plenty of middle ground between “wanting critique X to be the first thing everyone hears about you” and “wanting to hide critique X from your co-workers”.
Or they might indeed think that their critique isn’t that important, such that it’s not the specific hill they want to die on; if their post doesn’t get a really positive reception on their first attempt, it may be something they’d rather drop than keep fighting for, while also being too minor for them to want to use it as a filter for which projects they’d like to work at.
I don’t think people are thinking of it as “muhaha, now I can infiltrate EA orgs who don’t know my real views on anything”, I’m guessing it’s more that some people (a) haven’t thought through the upside of loudly signaling their views (to spark useful debates, and find like-minded EAs to team up with), or (b) haven’t thought through the downside of working at an EA org where you have to keep your real views about lots of important EA things a secret.
Thinking about it more, I could imagine a thing here like ‘EAs wanting to put their best foot forward’. Maybe you endorse a post you wrote, but you don’t think it reflects your very best work, so you’re wary of it being the first thing people see from you. Whereas once you’ve already proven yourself to someone, you might feel more comfortable sharing your full thinking with them; there’s plenty of middle ground between “wanting critique X to be the first thing everyone hears about you” and “wanting to hide critique X from your co-workers”.
Or they might indeed think that their critique isn’t that important, such that it’s not the specific hill they want to die on; if their post doesn’t get a really positive reception on their first attempt, it may be something they’d rather drop than keep fighting for, while also being too minor for them to want to use it as a filter for which projects they’d like to work at.