shinigami3@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down10
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.comshinigami3@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squareSoyweiser@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 days 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-up18·10 days ago“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·10 days 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-up6·10 days 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-up8·10 days 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