Practice rationalism on this. What predictions do you make, and what conditional predictions on whatever actions you’re advocating? It feels a little like you’re getting sucked into a status game by caring very much about who’s saying what, rather than steelmanning the critiques and deciding if members of the EA community (disclosure: I am not one—I’m not part of sneerclub, but I do see the cult-like aspects of the bay-area subculture) should do anything differently. As in, should you behave differently, separately from should you participate in the signaling and public conversations around this kind of thing for status purposes?
Note also that the criticism is not purely wrong. “Revealed preferences say a lot” is a pretty compelling point.
Practice rationalism on this. What predictions do you make, and what conditional predictions on whatever actions you’re advocating? It feels a little like you’re getting sucked into a status game by caring very much about who’s saying what, rather than steelmanning the critiques and deciding if members of the EA community (disclosure: I am not one—I’m not part of sneerclub, but I do see the cult-like aspects of the bay-area subculture) should do anything differently. As in, should you behave differently, separately from should you participate in the signaling and public conversations around this kind of thing for status purposes?
Note also that the criticism is not purely wrong. “Revealed preferences say a lot” is a pretty compelling point.