poetically tragic that Kelsey Piper took a job at Vox to popularize effective altruism and completely squandered the opportunity to be, y'know, an *effective* altruist
lel — "What it felt like from the inside was that the implications of my beliefs were too ridiculous for me to feel comfortable committing them to public scrutiny." archive.is/dLd1i
this is *exactly* what @L0m3z was getting at: americanmind.org/features/the-c…
this is *exactly* what @L0m3z was getting at: americanmind.org/features/the-c…
"I had a bunch of templates for how reasonable people talk and what kinds of things they say"
girl what?????????
girl what?????????
optics and obeying epistemic authority, because that's what rationalism is all about! 👍
notice that she doesn't say *why* she felt so constrained, funny how that works
notice that she doesn't say *why* she felt so constrained, funny how that works
someone could have made basically this exact thread about me after the Trump election, FYI
here is my embarrassing-in-retrospect blog post about it: sonyaellenmann.com/2016/11/trump-…
here is my embarrassing-in-retrospect blog post about it: sonyaellenmann.com/2016/11/trump-…
if being willing to look crazy is the cost of telling the truth, at times, and you straight-up say that you aren't willing to pay that cost... why should we trust you, again?
coronavirus twitter is wild, people out here posting that a couple of months ago they were sincerely concerned that millions of people could die, that their home communities could suffer like Wuhan, but they didn't say anything because... they might get mocked?
if your experience rounds to, "the social pressure against ~alarmism~ prevented me from expressing my sincere, genuine concerns about an impending pandemic," something about you and/or your social environment is deeply, DEEPLY sick
