Although leaders may say “I won’t judge or punish you if you disagree with me”, listeners are probably correct to interpret that as cheap talk.
GiveWell liked your criticism so much they literally started a contest to get more like it and gave you tens of thousands of dollars.
I’m trying to read your comment charitably but come on. Saying this quote is “cheap talk” when you’ve personally profited from it not being cheap talk is unfair to the point of being actively deceptive.
This is a conflation of technical criticism (e.g. you critique a methodology or offer scientific evidence to the contrary) and office politics criticism (e.g. you point out a conflict of interest or question a power dynamic)
Plant made a technical criticism, whereas office politics disagreement is the one that potentially carries social repercussions.
Besides, ea orgs aren’t the only party that matters- the media reads this forum too, i can see how someone might not want a workplace conflict to become their top Google result.
Hmm. I guess I was thinking about this in general, rather than my own case. That said, I don’t think there’s any contradiction between there being visible financial prizes for criticism and for people to still rationally think that (some form of) criticise will get you in trouble. Costly signals may reduce fears, but that doesn’t mean they will remove or reverse them. Seems worth noting that there has just been a big EA critiques prize and people are presently using burner accounts.
GiveWell liked your criticism so much they literally started a contest to get more like it and gave you tens of thousands of dollars.
I’m trying to read your comment charitably but come on. Saying this quote is “cheap talk” when you’ve personally profited from it not being cheap talk is unfair to the point of being actively deceptive.
This is a conflation of technical criticism (e.g. you critique a methodology or offer scientific evidence to the contrary) and office politics criticism (e.g. you point out a conflict of interest or question a power dynamic)
Plant made a technical criticism, whereas office politics disagreement is the one that potentially carries social repercussions.
Besides, ea orgs aren’t the only party that matters- the media reads this forum too, i can see how someone might not want a workplace conflict to become their top Google result.
Hmm. I guess I was thinking about this in general, rather than my own case. That said, I don’t think there’s any contradiction between there being visible financial prizes for criticism and for people to still rationally think that (some form of) criticise will get you in trouble. Costly signals may reduce fears, but that doesn’t mean they will remove or reverse them. Seems worth noting that there has just been a big EA critiques prize and people are presently using burner accounts.