shinigami3@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years agoEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up165
arrow-up165external-linkEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.comshinigami3@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareSoyweiser@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years 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-up18·2 years ago“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years 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-up6·2 years 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-up8·2 years agonot very visibly personally that i know ,but a lotta Thiel-adjacent people involved
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