I’m going to lay out a few threads in my mind, in the hopes that you will be curious about some of them and we can untangle from there.
All of these seem too abstract. I think that it would be better to focus on more concrete disagreements. Like the previously discussed question of whether veganism entails health-related tradeoffs.
I haven’t followed that and other conversations too closely, so I hesitate to even write this comment. I guess just chalk it up to me registering a not-fully-informed prediction that pushing the conversation towards concrete things like this and away from more abstract questions is frequently going to be the better path forward.
double checking you know I’m the one who wrote the veganism post? Because I am very with you that looking at theory in isolation is a waste of time, but also believe that it’s an important adjunct to object-level work.
Speaking of which, if anyone has an object level concern with EA epistemics you can submit it here. Anonymous submissions are allowed although in practice not very useful unless you can point to public evidence.
All of these seem too abstract. I think that it would be better to focus on more concrete disagreements. Like the previously discussed question of whether veganism entails health-related tradeoffs.
I haven’t followed that and other conversations too closely, so I hesitate to even write this comment. I guess just chalk it up to me registering a not-fully-informed prediction that pushing the conversation towards concrete things like this and away from more abstract questions is frequently going to be the better path forward.
double checking you know I’m the one who wrote the veganism post? Because I am very with you that looking at theory in isolation is a waste of time, but also believe that it’s an important adjunct to object-level work.
Speaking of which, if anyone has an object level concern with EA epistemics you can submit it here. Anonymous submissions are allowed although in practice not very useful unless you can point to public evidence.
Yes. I’m just registering the prediction that continuing that sort of stuff would be better than pursuing abstract stuff.