The “anti-movement” argument is that solving alignment will require the development of a new ‘mental martial art’ of systematically correct reasoning, and that the social forces of growing a community impair our collective sanity and degrade the signal the core “rationalists” were originally trying to send.
This may be an argument, but the one I’ve heard (and saw above) is something more like “It’s better to focus our efforts on a small group of great people and give them large gains, then a larger group of people each of whom we give small gains… or something.
It’s possible that both of these points are cruxes for many people who hold opposing views, but it does seem worth separating.
This may be an argument, but the one I’ve heard (and saw above) is something more like “It’s better to focus our efforts on a small group of great people and give them large gains, then a larger group of people each of whom we give small gains… or something.
It’s possible that both of these points are cruxes for many people who hold opposing views, but it does seem worth separating.