(I am not a huge fan of this post, but I think it’s reasonable for people to care about how society orients towards x-risk and AI concerns, and as such to actively want to not screen off evidence, and take responsibility for what people affiliated with you say on the internet. So I don’t think this is great advice.
I am actively subscribed to lots of people who I expect to say wrong and dumb things, because it’s important to me that I correct people and avoid misunderstandings, especially when someone might mistake my opinion for the opinion of the people saying dumb stuff)
I think you should uplevel the discourse by changing the title of the post and maybe deleting it. You’re just allowing vibes-based bullying, which is pretty toxic. Here’s why:
She elevated Kat’s name to the headline; used the entire post to insult her writing; drew on ageist tropes and perjoratives like “cringe” to make her case; explicitly chose to share the message not with the writing’s intended audience but rather an in-group who shares a distaste for lower-brow content; did so in an effort to rile up pressure to change the behavior on the other site; which was an all the more potent strike considering the context that Kat is already a well-known figure who presumably cares about her standing among LW/EA communities.
If she didn’t want this to be a personal attack, she could have made many different choices along the way, which she obviously did not, the most prominent being posting on Reddit rather than here and not putting her name in the headline, on top of what someone else has pointed out was “unnecessarily harsh tone” and what I will deem as uncharitable motivations like being “grumpy” about the vibes and mounting this attack for “fun”, a far more viscious kind of engagement bait than the memes she criticized.
(I am not a huge fan of this post, but I think it’s reasonable for people to care about how society orients towards x-risk and AI concerns, and as such to actively want to not screen off evidence, and take responsibility for what people affiliated with you say on the internet. So I don’t think this is great advice.
I am actively subscribed to lots of people who I expect to say wrong and dumb things, because it’s important to me that I correct people and avoid misunderstandings, especially when someone might mistake my opinion for the opinion of the people saying dumb stuff)
I think you should uplevel the discourse by changing the title of the post and maybe deleting it. You’re just allowing vibes-based bullying, which is pretty toxic. Here’s why:
She elevated Kat’s name to the headline; used the entire post to insult her writing; drew on ageist tropes and perjoratives like “cringe” to make her case; explicitly chose to share the message not with the writing’s intended audience but rather an in-group who shares a distaste for lower-brow content; did so in an effort to rile up pressure to change the behavior on the other site; which was an all the more potent strike considering the context that Kat is already a well-known figure who presumably cares about her standing among LW/EA communities.
If she didn’t want this to be a personal attack, she could have made many different choices along the way, which she obviously did not, the most prominent being posting on Reddit rather than here and not putting her name in the headline, on top of what someone else has pointed out was “unnecessarily harsh tone” and what I will deem as uncharitable motivations like being “grumpy” about the vibes and mounting this attack for “fun”, a far more viscious kind of engagement bait than the memes she criticized.