That’s fair. It was unreasonable of me to imply that their work is epistemically sound without engaging with it more. I flagged that I had only stumbled upon it and hadn’t engaged with it, but that should have restrained me from implying their criticism being epistemically sound.
In general, my idea of this post was more, “How curious, this sociology-ish institute is studying something related to x-risk and has engaged with EA in some way. Let me just share this and see what other people think.” and not “The criticism of this group is correct and very important, EA needs to engage with it to improve.”
That’s fair. It was unreasonable of me to imply that their work is epistemically sound without engaging with it more. I flagged that I had only stumbled upon it and hadn’t engaged with it, but that should have restrained me from implying their criticism being epistemically sound.
In general, my idea of this post was more, “How curious, this sociology-ish institute is studying something related to x-risk and has engaged with EA in some way. Let me just share this and see what other people think.” and not “The criticism of this group is correct and very important, EA needs to engage with it to improve.”