I agree that the Forum’s speech norms are annoying. I would prefer that people weren’t banned for being impolite even white making useful points.
I agree in a larger sense that EA can be innervating, sapping one’s will for conflict with many small touches
I agree that having one main funder and wanting to please them seems unhelpful
I’ve always thought you are a person of courage and integrity
On the other hand:
I think if you are struggling to convince EAs that is some evidence. I too am in the “it’s very likely not the end of the world but still worth paying attention to” camp. You haven’t convinced me.
Your personal tweets have felt increasingly high conflict and less epistemically careful. I think I muted you over a year ago. I guess you hate this take, but it’s true.
I don’t expect this to change your mind, but maybe there are reasons you aren’t convincing very informed people besides us being blind to reality. I admit I’d enjoy being rich, but I’m not particularly convinced I’ll go try and work for a lab. And I don’t think I bend my opinions towards Coefficient, either, and have never been funded by them.
I think you’re right to sat that a large proportion of the public will come to agree with you. But also I expect a large proportion of the public to give talking points about water and energy use and that disney has a moral right to their characters for as long as copyright says they do. This doesn’t seem good to me. I sense it seems fine to you.
I don’t think this is all our war. I guess that you do. If so, we disagree. I will help to the extent I agree with you and be flatfooded and confused to the extent that I don’t. I get that that’s annoying. I feel some of that annoyance myself at ways I disagree with the community. But to me it feels part of being in a community. I have to convince people. And you have’t convinced me.
Some thoughts:
I agree that the Forum’s speech norms are annoying. I would prefer that people weren’t banned for being impolite even white making useful points.
I agree in a larger sense that EA can be innervating, sapping one’s will for conflict with many small touches
I agree that having one main funder and wanting to please them seems unhelpful
I’ve always thought you are a person of courage and integrity
On the other hand:
I think if you are struggling to convince EAs that is some evidence. I too am in the “it’s very likely not the end of the world but still worth paying attention to” camp. You haven’t convinced me.
Your personal tweets have felt increasingly high conflict and less epistemically careful. I think I muted you over a year ago. I guess you hate this take, but it’s true.
I don’t expect this to change your mind, but maybe there are reasons you aren’t convincing very informed people besides us being blind to reality. I admit I’d enjoy being rich, but I’m not particularly convinced I’ll go try and work for a lab. And I don’t think I bend my opinions towards Coefficient, either, and have never been funded by them.
I think you’re right to sat that a large proportion of the public will come to agree with you. But also I expect a large proportion of the public to give talking points about water and energy use and that disney has a moral right to their characters for as long as copyright says they do. This doesn’t seem good to me. I sense it seems fine to you.
I don’t think this is all our war. I guess that you do. If so, we disagree. I will help to the extent I agree with you and be flatfooded and confused to the extent that I don’t. I get that that’s annoying. I feel some of that annoyance myself at ways I disagree with the community. But to me it feels part of being in a community. I have to convince people. And you have’t convinced me.