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Effective Altruists still trying to psych each other up to shoot Torres (archive)
this is the "Mark Fuentes" article again, evidently he thinks it didn't get enough traction
the comments are amazing and yet utterly predictable. Torres is being bad faith in accusing the one-issue pseudonymous account of being bad faith. EAs are very left wing u kno. Race science is well worth our time to consider. etc. they're gonna beat the accusations by enthusiastically confirming every one
The "survey" purporting to show most EA's are "left-wing" was run and hosted by Astral Codex Ten???? Are you fucking kidding me?
A lot of things there are just amazingly odd. Helen Pluckrose is such a nice liberal woman (who complains a lot about the left and helped the horrible James Lindsay gain fame), the part about Cowen is 'Torres misrepresents Cowen as saying he cares about the rich over the poor, but that is not fair to Cowen, Cowen just wants to take money away from the currently poor, to give to the currently rich, so the current rich can help the future poor via trickle down economics'.
This had me wondering, how common is the name Fuentes at all? Cause I keep having a small brainfart and thinking about Nick and I really hope that is a problem between my keyboard and chair and not intentional.
E: also EA/LW shooting the messenger, as is tradition.
394th most common surname in the US in 2010, for 81,000 people
so one in 4k or so. not terribly uncommon
But also not super rare, so prob a coincidence.