A very general point about how we are supposed to update in a complex system:
Evidence that a company you trust uses these should cause you to update BOTH slightly more towards “this isn’t too bad,” and slightly more towards “YC companies, and this company in particular, are unethical.”
(Though one of those updates might be a lot smaller than the other, if you’ve e.g. already thought about one of those topics a lot and reached a confident conclusion.)
A very general point about how we are supposed to update in a complex system:
Evidence that a company you trust uses these should cause you to update BOTH slightly more towards “this isn’t too bad,” and slightly more towards “YC companies, and this company in particular, are unethical.”
This is formally correct.
(Though one of those updates might be a lot smaller than the other, if you’ve e.g. already thought about one of those topics a lot and reached a confident conclusion.)