Do I want to encourage the author and others to write more posts like this.
And I favour this post for both of those reasons.
I agree that this post doesn’t make philosophical argument for it’s position, but I don’t require that for every post. I value it as an observation of how the EA movement has affected this particular person, and as criticism.
A couple of strongly Anti-EA friends of mine became so due to a similar moral burnout, so it’s particularly apparent to me how little emphasis is put on mental health.
I agree that this post doesn’t make philosophical argument for it’s position, but I don’t require that for every post. I value it as an observation of how the EA movement has affected this particular person, and as criticism.
Just to make my position really clear: I never said this post needed to make a philosophical argument for its position, rather that if a post wasn’t a philosophical argument we shouldn’t judge it by the standards we apply to a philosophical argument.
Then I tried to figure out an alternative standard by which to judge this post.
I interpret upvotes/downvote as
Do I want other people to read this post
Do I want to encourage the author and others to write more posts like this.
And I favour this post for both of those reasons.
I agree that this post doesn’t make philosophical argument for it’s position, but I don’t require that for every post. I value it as an observation of how the EA movement has affected this particular person, and as criticism.
A couple of strongly Anti-EA friends of mine became so due to a similar moral burnout, so it’s particularly apparent to me how little emphasis is put on mental health.
Just to make my position really clear: I never said this post needed to make a philosophical argument for its position, rather that if a post wasn’t a philosophical argument we shouldn’t judge it by the standards we apply to a philosophical argument.
Then I tried to figure out an alternative standard by which to judge this post.