I tried to explain why you may not want to put it that way, i.e. that there’s perhaps an issue of framing here, and you first reply “but the statement is true” and essentially miss the point.
I’ll briefly respond to one other point, but then want to reframe this because the confusion here seems unproductive to me (I’m not sure where our views differ and I don’t think our responses are helping to clarify that for one another). The original comment was expressing a view like “using the phrase ‘EAs are out’ is probably a bad way to frame this”. You responded “but it’s literally true” and then went on to talk about how disusing this seems important for EA. But no one’s implying it’s not important for us to discuss? The argument is not “let’s not talk about their relations to EA” it’s a framing thing, so I think you’re either mistaken on what the claim is here, or you just wrote this in a somewhat confusing manner where you started talking about something new and unrelated to the original point in your second paragraph.
To reframe: I’d perhaps want you to think on a question: what does it mean for us to be concerned that EAs are no longer on the board? Untangling why we care, and how we can best represent that, was the goal of my comment. To this end, I found the bits where you expand on your opinions on Toner and the board generally to be helpful.
I tried to explain why you may not want to put it that way, i.e. that there’s perhaps an issue of framing here, and you first reply “but the statement is true” and essentially miss the point.
I’ll briefly respond to one other point, but then want to reframe this because the confusion here seems unproductive to me (I’m not sure where our views differ and I don’t think our responses are helping to clarify that for one another). The original comment was expressing a view like “using the phrase ‘EAs are out’ is probably a bad way to frame this”. You responded “but it’s literally true” and then went on to talk about how disusing this seems important for EA. But no one’s implying it’s not important for us to discuss? The argument is not “let’s not talk about their relations to EA” it’s a framing thing, so I think you’re either mistaken on what the claim is here, or you just wrote this in a somewhat confusing manner where you started talking about something new and unrelated to the original point in your second paragraph.
To reframe: I’d perhaps want you to think on a question: what does it mean for us to be concerned that EAs are no longer on the board? Untangling why we care, and how we can best represent that, was the goal of my comment. To this end, I found the bits where you expand on your opinions on Toner and the board generally to be helpful.