shinigami3@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agoEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.comexternal-linkmessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkEA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism faultx.comshinigami3@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareSoyweiser@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 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-up0·4 months ago“kicking the racists out might mean less rich racists giving me money for Nonlinear”
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 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-up1·4 months 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”
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