Explain general effective approaches/how they are found
If you mean that they can convince someone easily that they could be cause-agnostic by explaining how to do research, I guess that you’re technically right. However, this is really long, because doing actual research work is complex, long, and boring. The reason why I wanted to give a “detrimental” example is because this is a quick explanation.
If you say “you need to interview dozens of people, ensure that your metrics and questions are not biased” is something that does not speaks to my guts. If you say “our methods are general, you could try to use them to defends traditional mariage and fight LGBT rights” that speaks really loudly to my me. I get the point that EA gives tools, and that those tools are general, even if they are mostly used by people caring about suffering and death
If you say “our methods are general, you could try to use them to defends traditional mariage and fight LGBT rights” that speaks really loudly to my me.
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If you mean that they can convince someone easily that they could be cause-agnostic by explaining how to do research, I guess that you’re technically right. However, this is really long, because doing actual research work is complex, long, and boring. The reason why I wanted to give a “detrimental” example is because this is a quick explanation. If you say “you need to interview dozens of people, ensure that your metrics and questions are not biased” is something that does not speaks to my guts. If you say “our methods are general, you could try to use them to defends traditional mariage and fight LGBT rights” that speaks really loudly to my me. I get the point that EA gives tools, and that those tools are general, even if they are mostly used by people caring about suffering and death
That’s what I meant.