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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoit’s about the curse of ___ism
minus-squareSoyweiser@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agonot very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved
it’s about the curse of ___ism
by jingo!
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