Pleasantly surprised by this (ditto for David Mathers’ comment). Maybe I will try this? I care a great deal about this issue, but not (yet) enough to burn my ability to speak with EAs.
You should absolutely do it, and I would agree that you probably would not receive material backlash.
But I would be careful to assume that your success means that any plain old person can critique EA and receive a warm reception.
You’ve spent a long time building amicable relationships with EAs (I suspect by walking on eggshells, self-censoring—hope I am not being presumptuous here David).
I feel a bit worried that everyone would like to believe that EAs will receive criticism in good faith, so they will be excited to tell you this is true, even if they can’t really be that confident. I hope they’re right, but worry they’re really saying “I, personally, would receive this in good faith, and I think others ought to, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t” or something like that.
I would guess from things like the Bostrom email controversy that you’ll get at least a couple of frustrating comments, and perhaps a small handful people who will be reflexively and unfairly judgemental. I would hope and guess that these experiences will be outweighed by people being grateful for you raising your concerns, including from people who ultimately disagree with the concerns. But obviously it’s hard to be sure (even harder given that I don’t know what the concerns are).
I’m a bit worried this comment raises the barrier to commentary, so let me try to lower it by saying you can feel free to DM me if you think talking to me privately about your post will help you get it published :)
Pleasantly surprised by this (ditto for David Mathers’ comment). Maybe I will try this? I care a great deal about this issue, but not (yet) enough to burn my ability to speak with EAs.
I’d be very surprised if this burnt your ability to speak with EAs.
You should absolutely do it, and I would agree that you probably would not receive material backlash.
But I would be careful to assume that your success means that any plain old person can critique EA and receive a warm reception.
You’ve spent a long time building amicable relationships with EAs (I suspect by walking on eggshells, self-censoring—hope I am not being presumptuous here David).
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I feel a bit worried that everyone would like to believe that EAs will receive criticism in good faith, so they will be excited to tell you this is true, even if they can’t really be that confident. I hope they’re right, but worry they’re really saying “I, personally, would receive this in good faith, and I think others ought to, and I don’t see why they wouldn’t” or something like that.
I would guess from things like the Bostrom email controversy that you’ll get at least a couple of frustrating comments, and perhaps a small handful people who will be reflexively and unfairly judgemental. I would hope and guess that these experiences will be outweighed by people being grateful for you raising your concerns, including from people who ultimately disagree with the concerns. But obviously it’s hard to be sure (even harder given that I don’t know what the concerns are).
I’m a bit worried this comment raises the barrier to commentary, so let me try to lower it by saying you can feel free to DM me if you think talking to me privately about your post will help you get it published :)