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"EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem" by Elizabeth
Oct 3, 2023
Elizabeth discusses the problems with EA Vegan Advocacy and the lack of truthseeking in effective altruism. The podcast explores the negative impact of EA vegan advocacy on truth seeking, challenges of vegan advocacy and exploring the nutritional completeness of plant-based food for cats. It also emphasizes the importance of truth-seeking in vegan advocacy and critiques claims on saturated fat, cholesterol, iron, lactose, and milk in a paper.
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- Vegan advocacy within effective altruism has actively lied and hindered truth-seeking, which requires nutritional education to ensure the well-being of vegans.
- The epistemic immune system of effective altruism needs to be strengthened to address the suppression of inconvenient questions and the dismissal of opposing arguments within the vegan advocacy community.
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EA Vegan Advocacy: Truth Seeking and Consequences
Effective altruism (EA) prides itself on truth seeking but falls short of its own standards. Vegan advocacy within EA has actively lied and hindered truth seeking by avoiding honest investigations. This hampers newcomers to EA who are denied a full understanding of the argument. There is a need for nutritional education within vegan advocacy to ensure the well-being of vegans. The epistemic immune system of EA needs to be strengthened to address the suppression of inconvenient questions, the framing control of implications, and the dismissal of opposing arguments. All effective altruists should prioritize preserving the epistemic commons and promoting truth-seeking.
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