Some clarifications on the comment: 1. I strongly endorse critique of organisations in general and especially within the EA space. I think it’s good that we as a community have the norm to embrace critiques. 2. I personally have my criticisms for Conjecture and my comment should not be seen as “everything’s great at Conjecture, nothing to see here!”. In fact, my main criticism of leadership style and CoEm not being the most effective thing they could do, are also represented prominently in this post. 3. I’d also be fine with the authors of this post saying something like “I have a strong feeling that something is fishy at Conjecture, here are the reasons for this feeling”. Or they could also clearly state which things are known and which things are mostly intuitions. 4. However, I think we should really make sure that we say true things when we criticize people, quantify our uncertainty, differentiate between facts and feelings and do not throw our epistemics out of the window in the process. 5. My main problem with the post is that they make a list of specific claim with high confidence and I think that is not warranted given the evidence I’m aware of. That’s all.
(cross-posted from EAF)
Some clarifications on the comment:
1. I strongly endorse critique of organisations in general and especially within the EA space. I think it’s good that we as a community have the norm to embrace critiques.
2. I personally have my criticisms for Conjecture and my comment should not be seen as “everything’s great at Conjecture, nothing to see here!”. In fact, my main criticism of leadership style and CoEm not being the most effective thing they could do, are also represented prominently in this post.
3. I’d also be fine with the authors of this post saying something like “I have a strong feeling that something is fishy at Conjecture, here are the reasons for this feeling”. Or they could also clearly state which things are known and which things are mostly intuitions.
4. However, I think we should really make sure that we say true things when we criticize people, quantify our uncertainty, differentiate between facts and feelings and do not throw our epistemics out of the window in the process.
5. My main problem with the post is that they make a list of specific claim with high confidence and I think that is not warranted given the evidence I’m aware of. That’s all.