His response is so uncharitable and demeaning I’m not sure it’s worth Larks’ time and effort to respond. For instance:
I don’t understand what the title has to do with the body of the text. ‘Meme’ either means a unit of cultural information or a funny picture with text; EA is definitely not ‘just’ the latter, and it is the former to the same extent that environmentalism or any other movement is.
I can say these sentences certainly are memes.
That’s the entirety of his response to what Larks pointed out, a confusion I share.
There are many great criticisms-of-EA writeups on the forum; here are some from the criticism of EA tag which I’ve personally appreciated:
His response is so uncharitable and demeaning I’m not sure it’s worth Larks’ time and effort to respond.
That’s just Red’s mannerisms, he’s just saying it because he likes being humorous. He’s a pretty nice guy, though if he were writing this response right now it’d be a lot more smartassy.
That’s the entirety of his response to what Larks pointed out, a confusion I share.
Well he did address (most) of his arguments, despite his memey attitude. I don’t think being a bit of a dick negates any arguments he made.
His response is so uncharitable and demeaning I’m not sure it’s worth Larks’ time and effort to respond. For instance:
That’s the entirety of his response to what Larks pointed out, a confusion I share.
There are many great criticisms-of-EA writeups on the forum; here are some from the criticism of EA tag which I’ve personally appreciated:
Objections to Value-Alignment between Effective Altruists
Effective altruism’s odd attitude to mental health
My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence
The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism
Critique of the notion that impact follows a power-law distribution
On a more meta level, your friend might sharpen his critiques by reading e.g. Critiques of EA that I want to read and Motivation gaps: Why so much EA criticism is hostile and lazy (the latter written by an EA skeptic by the way), but given his lack of charity I’m not optimistic on this front.
That’s just Red’s mannerisms, he’s just saying it because he likes being humorous. He’s a pretty nice guy, though if he were writing this response right now it’d be a lot more smartassy.
Well he did address (most) of his arguments, despite his memey attitude. I don’t think being a bit of a dick negates any arguments he made.
What do you think of his original post?