🤔 I guess even with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander, one could question how much the problem is that they started being propagandistic, versus that they never put grit in to research these topics in the first place. Much of their earlier sex essentialist rhetoric seems derived from easy anecdotes and opinions from other sex essentialists. What’s the biggest rationalist research project that overlaps with sex essentialism?
🤔 I guess even with Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander, one could question how much the problem is that they started being propagandistic, versus that they never put grit in to research these topics in the first place. Much of their earlier sex essentialist rhetoric seems derived from easy anecdotes and opinions from other sex essentialists. What’s the biggest rationalist research project that overlaps with sex essentialism?