@shinigami3 to SneerClubEnglish • 9 months agoEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.commessage-square87arrow-up165arrow-down10
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minus-square@SoyweiserlinkEnglish11•9 months agoOne objection is that “woke ideology hurts EA cause areas”. There are many counters to that. First off, are they actually “woke”? There is a ton of disagreement.
minus-squareDavid GerardMAlinkEnglish18•9 months ago“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
minus-square@froztbytelinkEnglish17•9 months ago“I just think it’s really unfair for my friends and donors to have to feel this uncomfortable because …” aaaah, the language of the complicit and the vile. how I loathe thee.
minus-square@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agonow it got me wondering: how closely is chief shithead pete thiel involved in EA? that probably wouldn’t be much, unless indirectly via his fellowship and such?
minus-squareDavid GerardMAlinkEnglish8•9 months agonot very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved
One objection is that “woke ideology hurts EA cause areas”.
There are many counters to that.
First off, are they actually “woke”? There is a ton of disagreement.
“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
“I just think it’s really unfair for my friends and donors to have to feel this uncomfortable because …”
aaaah, the language of the complicit and the vile. how I loathe thee.
now it got me wondering: how closely is chief shithead pete thiel involved in EA? that probably wouldn’t be much, unless indirectly via his fellowship and such?
not very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved