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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
I think that you are pointing to an important grain of truth.
I think that crossing inferential gaps is hard.
Academic writing is one medium. I think that facial expressions have a tonne of information that is hard to capture in writing but can be captured in a picture. To understand maths, writing is fine. To understand the knowledge in people's heads, more high fidelity mediums than writing (like video) is better.
Hi Sophia,
I'm wondering if academics have a built-in bias for complexity and sophistication, because without it, they can't be experts.
Many of the academic posts I see here and elsewhere are very articulate expressions of complexity, but they seem to missing what is sometimes a quite simple bottom line. As example, consider this claim:
If we don't gain control of the knowledge explosion, nothing else really matters.
I strongly agree. I think this question getting downvoted reveals everything wrong with the EA movement. I am thinking it might be to start a new kind of revolution of compassion, patience and rationality. 🤣
What do you think?