I definitely wouldn’t bet money that EA will have evolved into something you can live with (Neither EA nor the threads of rationality that he affeted evolved into things Ben Hoffman could live with)
But, I do think there is something important about the fact that, despite that, it is inaccurate to say “the critiques dropped like a stone through water” (or, what I interpret that poetry to mean, which is something like “basically nobody listened at all”. I don’t think I misunderstood that part but if I did then I do retract my claim)
The thing I would bet is “your ‘build a lifeboat for some people-like-you to move to somewhere other than EA’ plan will work at least a bit, and, one of the important mechanisms for it working will be those effortful posts you wrote.”
I definitely wouldn’t bet money that EA will have evolved into something you can live with (Neither EA nor the threads of rationality that he affeted evolved into things Ben Hoffman could live with)
But, I do think there is something important about the fact that, despite that, it is inaccurate to say “the critiques dropped like a stone through water” (or, what I interpret that poetry to mean, which is something like “basically nobody listened at all”. I don’t think I misunderstood that part but if I did then I do retract my claim)
The thing I would bet is “your ‘build a lifeboat for some people-like-you to move to somewhere other than EA’ plan will work at least a bit, and, one of the important mechanisms for it working will be those effortful posts you wrote.”