Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology. https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1725958636529480155
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
EA is deeply anti-Socratic. Instead of "I know that I don't know" it says "I am so sure that I know that I don't spend any time questioning my fundamental assumptions but instead spend all my time on infinitesimal calculations about how to execute my assumptions" Deeply anti-Socratic philosophies should give pause.
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Leo
@lsn
Strong strong disagree Best framing of EA I’ve seen is as a question: what is the best thing I can do? Many EAs I know spend a cringe worthy amount of time questioning their assumptions But framing EA as a question means it appends, doesn’t overwrite: it doesn’t make bad people good
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
They are questioning the assumptions of their calculations not the assumptions of their values themselves. That’s very different.
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