I want to draw attention to the fact that “Kerry Vaughan” is a brand new account that has made exactly three comments, all of them on this thread. “Kerry Vaughan” is associated with Leverage. “Kerry Vaughan”’s use of “they” to describe Leverage is deliberately misleading.
If “it’s not unscientific because it merely takes science back 200-400 years” is the best defense that LEVERAGE ITSELF can give for its own epistemic standards then any claims it has to scientific rigor are laughable. 1600 was the time of William Shakespeare.
Edit: I’m not saying that science in 1600 was laughable. I’m saying that performing 1600-style science today is laughable.
I want to draw attention to the fact that “Kerry Vaughan” is a brand new account that has made exactly three comments, all of them on this thread. “Kerry Vaughan” is associated with Leverage. “Kerry Vaughan”’s use of “they” to describe Leverage is deliberately misleading.
I’m not hiding my connection to Leverage which is why I used my real name, mentioned that I work at Leverage in other comments, and used “we” in connection with a link to Leverage’s case studies. I used “they” to refer to Leverage 1.0 since I didn’t work at Leverage during that time.
I want to draw attention to the fact that “Kerry Vaughan” is a brand new account that has made exactly three comments, all of them on this thread. “Kerry Vaughan” is associated with Leverage. “Kerry Vaughan”’s use of “they” to describe Leverage is deliberately misleading.
To be fair, KV was open about that association in both previous comments, using ‘we’ in the first and including this disclaimer in the second --
(I currently work at Leverage research but did not work at Leverage during Leverage 1.0 (although I interacted with Leverage 1.0 and know many of the people involved). Before working at Leverage I did EA community building at CEA between Summer 2014 and early 2019.)
-- which also seems to explain the use of ‘they’ in KV’s third comment, which referred specifically to “Leverage 1.0”.
(I hope this goes without saying on LW, but I don’t mean this as a general defense of Leverage or of KV’s opinions. I know nothing about either beyond what I’ve read here, and I haven’t even read all the relevant comments. Personally I wouldn’t get involved with an organisation like Leverage.)
I want to draw attention to the fact that “Kerry Vaughan” is a brand new account that has made exactly three comments, all of them on this thread. “Kerry Vaughan” is associated with Leverage. “Kerry Vaughan”’s use of “they” to describe Leverage is deliberately misleading.
If “it’s not unscientific because it merely takes science back 200-400 years” is the best defense that LEVERAGE ITSELF can give for its own epistemic standards then any claims it has to scientific rigor are laughable. 1600 was the time of William Shakespeare.
Edit: I’m not saying that science in 1600 was laughable. I’m saying that performing 1600-style science today is laughable.
I’m not hiding my connection to Leverage which is why I used my real name, mentioned that I work at Leverage in other comments, and used “we” in connection with a link to Leverage’s case studies. I used “they” to refer to Leverage 1.0 since I didn’t work at Leverage during that time.
To be fair, KV was open about that association in both previous comments, using ‘we’ in the first and including this disclaimer in the second --
-- which also seems to explain the use of ‘they’ in KV’s third comment, which referred specifically to “Leverage 1.0”.
(I hope this goes without saying on LW, but I don’t mean this as a general defense of Leverage or of KV’s opinions. I know nothing about either beyond what I’ve read here, and I haven’t even read all the relevant comments. Personally I wouldn’t get involved with an organisation like Leverage.)
The problem is that currents academic standards lead to fields like psychology being very unproductive.
Experimenting with going back to scientific norms from before the great stagnation is one way to work to achieve scientific progress.
(This account is the same Kerry btw, my guess is Kerry happened to try logging in with google, which doesn’t actually connect to existing accounts)
I don’t think that’s my account actually. It’s entirely possible that I never created a LW account before now.