I see a response to my reply above saying “This seems to misunderstand the thing that it argues against”. I wasn’t arguing against anything specific—this was my attempt to understand why rationalists repeatedly fall into this pattern, but I must have missed something.
I spent a few difficult hours today reading through the discussion on the Manifest allegations on the EA forum and Twitter (figured it’s an appropriate way to spend Juneteenth) and my thoughts have converged to this tweet by Shakeel.
I’m done with reading or posting on LW (like I mentioned, I’ve had past in-person experience in this realm), but I’m leaving this suggestion here for any person of color or anyone who is firmly opposed to racism trying to disambiguate the extent of racism in the rationalist community—RUN!
I see a response to my reply above saying “This seems to misunderstand the thing that it argues against”. I wasn’t arguing against anything specific—this was my attempt to understand why rationalists repeatedly fall into this pattern, but I must have missed something.
I spent a few difficult hours today reading through the discussion on the Manifest allegations on the EA forum and Twitter (figured it’s an appropriate way to spend Juneteenth) and my thoughts have converged to this tweet by Shakeel.
I’m done with reading or posting on LW (like I mentioned, I’ve had past in-person experience in this realm), but I’m leaving this suggestion here for any person of color or anyone who is firmly opposed to racism trying to disambiguate the extent of racism in the rationalist community—RUN!