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How Effective Altruists Use Threats and Harassment to Silence Their Critics | Émile P. Torres

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blakestacey

awful.systems

T Kamal in the comments:

I mean, not to tar any groups with a broad brush, but like, if I had to be criticized by any one person, I'd prefer to be criticized by DAIR rather than EAs, because the EAs hang around the Rationalists, and the Rationalists birthed the Zizians, and those folks have murders attributed to them. Like, at least with Dr. Gebru I can be reasonably sure that no one's gonna come at me with a katana.

CinnasVerses reply

awful.systems

I don't think Torres or Gebru have dismissed the consequences of global heating like Nick Bostrom and Kelsey Piper, or casually called for bombing China and letting something replace humanity like Yud https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yudkowskys-long-history-of

CinnasVerses

awful.systems

You have to be a bit crazy to go after a group like this (the Javert Paradox) but I don't have big problems with anything Dr. Torres or Dr. Gebru have written as far as I can recall. I hope Torres gets off Twitter because that was never a healthy place.

SmoothOperator

lemmy.world

Effective altruists should stick to donating malaria nets.