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by tptacek 1308 days ago
... so does Catholicism. It's the rest of what EA (and Catholicism) has to say that gets us into trouble. (I'm Catholic, fwiw).
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I'm not very close to the core of EA, so maybe my perspective is not the most accurate, but one thing that I feel sets EA apart from other movements is that EA people generally are happy to disagree and change their mind based on good ideas/arguments/evidence from anyone inside our outside EA. For example:

https://80000hours.org/about/credibility/evaluations/mistake... https://80000hours.org/2020/02/anonymous-answers-flaws-80000...

I expect and hope that people within EA will keep learning from mistakes and changing their views.

Well, right today there's an article on the economist, one on the guardian, two things on the front page of hacker news, etc. This is a debate, with clear criticism of their current views. Let's see.