Thanks for sharing. I think EAs are only ethically better than other people under consequentialist ethics, but are just as bad as anyone else when it comes to virtues and obeying good social rules, which is sad, because we can and should do better.
I don’t think this is true. Not sure how you’d measure or verify/refute this, but I suspect that the average EA man objectifies women much less than the average non-EA man. It’s just that we have an imbalanced gender ratio so these incidents are disproportionately concentrated onto few women, which is really unfair to them.
Tacking on with Robi, I strongly disagree with this, and would point to the fact that there are deontologists and virtue ethicists in our midst who mark their own moral life by the things you speak of EAs being “just as bad” at. But in the spirit of trying to understand your position further, what specific things do you think EAs are just as bad at?
Thanks for sharing. I think EAs are only ethically better than other people under consequentialist ethics, but are just as bad as anyone else when it comes to virtues and obeying good social rules, which is sad, because we can and should do better.
I don’t think this is true. Not sure how you’d measure or verify/refute this, but I suspect that the average EA man objectifies women much less than the average non-EA man. It’s just that we have an imbalanced gender ratio so these incidents are disproportionately concentrated onto few women, which is really unfair to them.
Tacking on with Robi, I strongly disagree with this, and would point to the fact that there are deontologists and virtue ethicists in our midst who mark their own moral life by the things you speak of EAs being “just as bad” at. But in the spirit of trying to understand your position further, what specific things do you think EAs are just as bad at?