Apologies. A few things to disambiguate and address separately:
1. In that comment I was referring primarily to discussions about the trustworthiness and/or systematic distortion-ness of various EA and rationalist orgs and/or leadership, which I had mentally bucketed as fairly separate from our conversation. BUT even in that context “Only counterargument is base rates” is not a fair summary. I was feeling somewhat frustrated at the time I wrote that but that’s not a good excuse. (The behavior I think I endorse most is trying to avoid continuing the conversation in a comment thread at all, but I’ve obviously been failing hard at that)
2. My take on our prior conversation was more about “things that are socially costly to talk about, that are more like ‘mainstream politics’ than like ‘rationalist politics.’” Yes, there’s a large cluster of things related to mainstream politics and social justice where weighing in at all just feels like it’s going to make my life worse (this is less about not getting invited to parties and more about having more of my life filled with stressful conversations for battles that I don’t think are the best thing to prioritize fighting)
Apologies. A few things to disambiguate and address separately:
1. In that comment I was referring primarily to discussions about the trustworthiness and/or systematic distortion-ness of various EA and rationalist orgs and/or leadership, which I had mentally bucketed as fairly separate from our conversation. BUT even in that context “Only counterargument is base rates” is not a fair summary. I was feeling somewhat frustrated at the time I wrote that but that’s not a good excuse. (The behavior I think I endorse most is trying to avoid continuing the conversation in a comment thread at all, but I’ve obviously been failing hard at that)
2. My take on our prior conversation was more about “things that are socially costly to talk about, that are more like ‘mainstream politics’ than like ‘rationalist politics.’” Yes, there’s a large cluster of things related to mainstream politics and social justice where weighing in at all just feels like it’s going to make my life worse (this is less about not getting invited to parties and more about having more of my life filled with stressful conversations for battles that I don’t think are the best thing to prioritize fighting)
OK. Looking forward to future posts.