I respectfully disagree with this post. I think one of the best aspects of rat/EA/adjacent spaces like Manifest is that they’re willing to have a broader Overton window than the rest of society, and that this is fragile and should be protected. To encourage Manifest to no longer host “controversial” speakers (more controversial from the perspective of mainstream media than from the perspective of EA) is to defeat the purpose of one of the key norms of rationalism: truth-seeking over prevailing social norms.
I respectfully disagree with this post. I think one of the best aspects of rat/EA/adjacent spaces like Manifest is that they’re willing to have a broader Overton window than the rest of society, and that this is fragile and should be protected. To encourage Manifest to no longer host “controversial” speakers (more controversial from the perspective of mainstream media than from the perspective of EA) is to defeat the purpose of one of the key norms of rationalism: truth-seeking over prevailing social norms.