Yeah, that particular part sounded a lot like “I can’t understand why people disagree with IABIED without suffering from PR mindset”.
Like, this would be not out of place if someone couldn’t actually understand or tolerate disagreement with the Grand Ideas, and I really wish this quote was stricken from the post entirely:
Another example I would cite was the response to If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by the core EA people, including among others Will MacAskill himself and also the head of CEA. This was a very clear example of PR mindset, where quite frankly a decision was made that this was a bad EA look, the moves it proposes were unstrategic, and thus the book should be thrown overboard. If Will is sincere about this reckoning, he should be able to recognize that this is what happened.
Yeah, that particular part sounded a lot like “I can’t understand why people disagree with IABIED without suffering from PR mindset”.
Like, this would be not out of place if someone couldn’t actually understand or tolerate disagreement with the Grand Ideas, and I really wish this quote was stricken from the post entirely: