Your comments seem to be way longer than they need to be because you don’t trust other users here. Like, if someone comes and says they felt like it was a cult, I’m just going to think “OK, someone felt like it was a cult.” I’m not going to assume that they are doing secret blood rituals, I’m not going to assume that it’s a proven fact. I don’t need all these qualifications about the difference between cultishness and a stereotypical cult, I don’t need all these qualifications about the inherent uncertainty of the issue, that stuff is old hat. This is the EA Forum, an internal space where issues are supposed to be worked out calmly; surely here, if anywhere, is a place where frank criticism is okay, and where we can extend the benefit of the doubt. I think you’re wasting a lot of time, and implicitly signaling that the issue is more of a drama mine than it should be.
I admit I’m coming from a place of not entirely trusting all other users here. That may be a factor in why my comments are longer in this thread than they need to be. I tend to write more than is necessary in general. For what it’s worth, I treat the EA Forum not as an internal space but how I’d ideally like to see it be used. That is as a primary platform for EA discourse, on par with a level of activity more akin to the ‘Effective Altruism’ Facebook group, or LessWrong.
I admit I’ve been wasting time. I’ve stopped responding directly to the OP because if I’m coming across as implicitly signaling this issue is a drama mine, I should come out and say what I actually believe. I may make a top-level post about. I haven’t decided yet.
Your comments seem to be way longer than they need to be because you don’t trust other users here. Like, if someone comes and says they felt like it was a cult, I’m just going to think “OK, someone felt like it was a cult.” I’m not going to assume that they are doing secret blood rituals, I’m not going to assume that it’s a proven fact. I don’t need all these qualifications about the difference between cultishness and a stereotypical cult, I don’t need all these qualifications about the inherent uncertainty of the issue, that stuff is old hat. This is the EA Forum, an internal space where issues are supposed to be worked out calmly; surely here, if anywhere, is a place where frank criticism is okay, and where we can extend the benefit of the doubt. I think you’re wasting a lot of time, and implicitly signaling that the issue is more of a drama mine than it should be.
I admit I’m coming from a place of not entirely trusting all other users here. That may be a factor in why my comments are longer in this thread than they need to be. I tend to write more than is necessary in general. For what it’s worth, I treat the EA Forum not as an internal space but how I’d ideally like to see it be used. That is as a primary platform for EA discourse, on par with a level of activity more akin to the ‘Effective Altruism’ Facebook group, or LessWrong.
I admit I’ve been wasting time. I’ve stopped responding directly to the OP because if I’m coming across as implicitly signaling this issue is a drama mine, I should come out and say what I actually believe. I may make a top-level post about. I haven’t decided yet.