Also, I’m trying to understand your thinking. Is this an accurate representation of what you’re saying?
While in general, people are allowed to write up poorly thought-out criticism of major governmental institutions during a time of crisis and to advocate against that governmental institution, on LessWrong people should be obligated to ensure the criticism is true before saying it and making that kind of advocacy, because we try to be better than elsewhere.
If the authors of this post had questions about whether their criticism was true or whether this was a good time to say the criticism, they should have vetted it with the biosecurity x-risk people at FHI and OpenPhil before publishing, and given that they didn’t do this basic ethical check, the post should be removed until such a time as they do (and they must edit in any advice received).
on LessWrong people should be obligated to ensure the criticism is true before saying it
I understood Davidmanheim to be arguing that it was true, but that they shouldn’t have said it; that is, the standard is it being positive EV, not factually accurate. [Or, at least, that the truth wasn’t the crux, and the EV was the crux.]
Also, I’m trying to understand your thinking. Is this an accurate representation of what you’re saying?
I understood Davidmanheim to be arguing that it was true, but that they shouldn’t have said it; that is, the standard is it being positive EV, not factually accurate. [Or, at least, that the truth wasn’t the crux, and the EV was the crux.]