I am sympathetic to your takes here, but I am not that sympathetic to statements like this:
but I don’t see either serious public engagement with my ideas here, or a serious alternative agenda.
As it happens I also happen to have written many tens-of-thousands of words about this in many comments across LW and the EA Forum. I also haven’t seen you engage with those things! (and my guess is the way you are phrasing it suggests you are not aware of them)
Like, man, I do feel like I resonate with the things that you are saying, but it just feels particularly weird to have you show up and complain that no one has engaged with your content on this, while having that exact relationship to approximately the people you are talking to. I, the head admin of LessWrong, have actually spent on the order of many hundreds of hours, maybe 1000+ hours on doing postmortem-ish things in the space, or at least calling for them. I don’t know whether you think what I did/do makes any sense, but I think there is a real attempt of the kind of thing you are hoping for (to be clear, mostly ending with a kind of disappointment and resulting distancing from much of the associated community’s, but it’s not like you can claim a better track record here).
And in contrast to your relationship with my content, I have read your content and have engaged with it a good amount. You can read through my EA Forum comments and LW comments on the topic if you want to get a sense of how I think about these things.
I’m aware that you’ve complained about these problems, but I’m specifically calling for the development and evaluation of explanatory models, which is a different activity. If you’ve done much of that in your public writing I missed it—anything you’d like to point me to?
That does seem like it’s overtly concerned with developing an explanation, but it seems concerned with deviance rather than corruption, so it’s on a different topic than the ones I complain about in the OP. I was aware of that one already, as I replied with a comment at the time.
I am sympathetic to your takes here, but I am not that sympathetic to statements like this:
As it happens I also happen to have written many tens-of-thousands of words about this in many comments across LW and the EA Forum. I also haven’t seen you engage with those things! (and my guess is the way you are phrasing it suggests you are not aware of them)
Like, man, I do feel like I resonate with the things that you are saying, but it just feels particularly weird to have you show up and complain that no one has engaged with your content on this, while having that exact relationship to approximately the people you are talking to. I, the head admin of LessWrong, have actually spent on the order of many hundreds of hours, maybe 1000+ hours on doing postmortem-ish things in the space, or at least calling for them. I don’t know whether you think what I did/do makes any sense, but I think there is a real attempt of the kind of thing you are hoping for (to be clear, mostly ending with a kind of disappointment and resulting distancing from much of the associated community’s, but it’s not like you can claim a better track record here).
And in contrast to your relationship with my content, I have read your content and have engaged with it a good amount. You can read through my EA Forum comments and LW comments on the topic if you want to get a sense of how I think about these things.
I’m aware that you’ve complained about these problems, but I’m specifically calling for the development and evaluation of explanatory models, which is a different activity. If you’ve done much of that in your public writing I missed it—anything you’d like to point me to?
I have tried to do that, though it’s definitely more dispersed.
Most of it is still in comments and so a bit hard to extract, but one post I did write about this was My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists sometimes turn crazy.
That does seem like it’s overtly concerned with developing an explanation, but it seems concerned with deviance rather than corruption, so it’s on a different topic than the ones I complain about in the OP. I was aware of that one already, as I replied with a comment at the time.