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Sure, fine. I'm just highlighting that you chose to call out Karen Hao for her mistake (which she admitted and corrected), but not Will MacAskill or any of the
by konmok 11mo ago
Sure, fine. I'm just highlighting that you chose to call out Karen Hao for her mistake (which she admitted and corrected), but not Will MacAskill or any of the other big EA names that have made egregious and dishonest claims. If it's not a double standard, Will also ought to be silent on this subject, right?
That's what I mean by unbalanced scrutiny.
- Arnt 10mo agoIMNSHO she didn't admit and correct the mistake — yet. She admitted one mistake and has corrected none, and the one she admitted was IMNSHO not the severe one. She made several mistakes, of which I'll describe two. One (modestly serious) was to confuse units and compute the wrong number. The second (against my religion) was to publish without sanity-checking. You and I both know she didn't check, because her estimate for the average water use of one building was 20% of the water use of the continent. Any sort of check would uncover that mistake. We in the rational camp are supposed to behave differently from Alex Jones, and part of that is to check before we publish. She's "making arrangements with her editor to rectify the situation". If she fixes every reported error, not just one of them, I'll have a lot of respect for her.
- konmok 10mo agoYou dodged the question. That's not very rational of you :)
- Arnt 10mo agoWas the question about Will whatshisname? I'd rather not mention his possible transgressions, since I hadn't even heard the name until this thread. Post a story about him to HN and I'll either comment or miss the thread, both are possible.