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EA is too insular #14

Open paul-crowe opened 1 year ago

paul-crowe commented 1 year ago

Example: EA is too insular

Summary: "EAs commonly place more trust in other EAs than in non-EAs. Members are seen as epistemic peers, and thereby the default reference class. Trust is granted to EAs by virtue of being EA and because they likely share principles of inquiry and above-average intelligence... These trust distributions allow EAs to sometimes dismiss external critics without a thorough investigation."

Date: 15th Jul 2020

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Public responses: ACE looking for 'external' reviewers, but seeking them out on the EA forum (28th Aug 2019) Insularity is a "trap" (15th Jan 2021) This bit about power dynamics in close-knit EA; ex-partners, co-workers (1st Jun 2022) Too many personal connections (1st Sep 2022)

paul-crowe commented 1 year ago

Example: EA needs outsider perspective and criticism

Summary: As listed

Date: 30th Dec 2014

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paul-crowe commented 1 year ago

Example: Too much back-scratching among orgs

Summary: "the most "legit" problem with EA in my opinion is the self-dealing; there's a lot of organizations whose "researchers" conclude that the best place to donate is another org where the researchers' friends and romantic partners work." "Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI and MIRI and CFAR have a ton of staff overlap and staff drawn from the same friend groups and so on."

Date: 14th May 2022

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paul-crowe commented 1 year ago

Example: EA is allowing billions in charity funds to be inefficiently spent

Summary: The general public send billions a year to sub-optimal or near-useless charities. If EAs crawled out of their intellectual cave once in a while and talked to normal people they might be able to divert some of those billions towards efficient charities.

Date: 14th May 2022

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