Comment by vintermann

1 month ago

They also downplay global warming, nuclear war, wealth inequality, and in general anything other, less cool people they didn't want to identify with thought was important.

If they had thought, yeah, "the majority is more or less right about what the big issues are", there wouldn't be enough room to construe themselves as uniquely intelligent.

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thevinter  1 month ago

Who are these "they" you're talking about?

If your answer is EA or rats then a simple Google search will just show you that it's not true?

  • tpm  1 month ago

    I'm yet to see evidence they are weighing global warming they way it IMO should be weighted relatively to eg AI risk. I get it, it's not cool.

    Compare the number of posts of some EA-adjacent public people talking about AI and talking about this. Or what measure should we choose?

  • vintermann  1 month ago

    Label them what you want. I'll go with EAs if you insist.

    Sure, they're not entirely monolithic. There's room for "EA, but vegan", "EA, but global warming still matters", maybe even "EA, but vaguely socialist". As I keep saying, the core belief is that they're special because of their intellectual superiority, anything else is negotiable.