Do you have some examples? I’ve noticed that rationalists tend to ascribe good faith to outside criticisms too often, to the extent that obviously bad-faith criticisms are treated as invitations for discussions. For example, there was an article about SSC in the New Yorker that came out after Scott deleted SSC but before the NYT article. Many rationalists failed to recognize the New Yorker article as a hit piece which I believe it clearly was, even more clearly now that the NYT article has come out.
I am reluctant to mention specific examples, partly because maybe I’ve misunderstood and partly because I hate being at all confrontational. But regardless, I have definitely seen this outside the rationalist community, and I have definitely noticed myself doing this. Usually I only do it in my head though, where I feel upset when it’s coming from outside my group but if someone inside the group says it then I’ll mentally nod along.
Do you have some examples? I’ve noticed that rationalists tend to ascribe good faith to outside criticisms too often, to the extent that obviously bad-faith criticisms are treated as invitations for discussions. For example, there was an article about SSC in the New Yorker that came out after Scott deleted SSC but before the NYT article. Many rationalists failed to recognize the New Yorker article as a hit piece which I believe it clearly was, even more clearly now that the NYT article has come out.
I am reluctant to mention specific examples, partly because maybe I’ve misunderstood and partly because I hate being at all confrontational. But regardless, I have definitely seen this outside the rationalist community, and I have definitely noticed myself doing this. Usually I only do it in my head though, where I feel upset when it’s coming from outside my group but if someone inside the group says it then I’ll mentally nod along.