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.

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

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.

e/acc has the same vibe, but the big difference is it is built primarily on reacting against perceived enemies. It has all the cultiness of EA with way creepier us vs them undertones. 

e/acc folks aren't tried to persuade. They're more like Alex Jones infowarriors.

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They are questioning the assumptions of their calculations not the assumptions of their values themselves. That’s very different.

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