The line about "carnists" strikes me as outgroup homogeneity, conceptual gerrymandering, The Worst Argument In The World - call it what you want, but it should be something rationalists should have antibodies against.
Specifically, equivocating between "carnists [meat industry lobbyists]" and "carnists [EA non-vegans]" seems to me like known anti-truthseeking behavior.
So the question, as I see you posing, is whether NinetyThree prefers being in an epistemic environment with people who care about epistemic truthseeking (EA non-vegans) or with people for whom... (read more)
I think my point would be empirically supported; we can try set up a survey and run a factor analysis if you doubt it.
Edit: just to clarify I'm not gonna run the factor analysis unless someone who doubts the validity of the category comes by to cooperate, because I'm busy and expect there'd be a lot of goalpost moving that I don't have time to deal with if I did it without pre-approval from someone who doesn't buy it.
The line about "carnists" strikes me as outgroup homogeneity, conceptual gerrymandering, The Worst Argument In The World - call it what you want, but it should be something rationalists should have antibodies against.
Specifically, equivocating between "carnists [meat industry lobbyists]" and "carnists [EA non-vegans]" seems to me like known anti-truthseeking behavior.
So the question, as I see you posing, is whether NinetyThree prefers being in an epistemic environment with people who care about epistemic truthseeking (EA non-vegans) or with people for whom... (read more)