EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.com shinigami3 ( @shinigami3@awful.systems ) SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish • 3 months ago message-square76fedilinkarrow-up143
arrow-up143external-linkEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.com shinigami3 ( @shinigami3@awful.systems ) SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish • 3 months ago message-square76fedilink
minus-square David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months agoit’s about the curse of ___ism
minus-square Soyweiser ( @Soyweiser@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish11•3 months agoOne objection is that “woke ideology hurts EA cause areas”. There are many counters to that. First off, are they actually “woke”? There is a ton of disagreement.
minus-square David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish18•3 months ago“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
minus-square froztbyte ( @froztbyte@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish17•3 months ago“I just think it’s really unfair for my friends and donors to have to feel this uncomfortable because …” aaaah, the language of the complicit and the vile. how I loathe thee.
minus-square skillissuer ( @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ) linkfedilinkEnglish6•3 months agonow it got me wondering: how closely is chief shithead pete thiel involved in EA? that probably wouldn’t be much, unless indirectly via his fellowship and such?
minus-square David Gerard ( @dgerard@awful.systems ) linkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agonot very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved
it’s about the curse of ___ism
One objection is that “woke ideology hurts EA cause areas”.
There are many counters to that.
First off, are they actually “woke”? There is a ton of disagreement.
“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
“I just think it’s really unfair for my friends and donors to have to feel this uncomfortable because …”
aaaah, the language of the complicit and the vile. how I loathe thee.
now it got me wondering: how closely is chief shithead pete thiel involved in EA? that probably wouldn’t be much, unless indirectly via his fellowship and such?
not very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved
by jingo!