Effective Altruists: look, we tried to invite nice people as well as the huge racists we knew were huge racists when we invited them. What? Exclude the racists? But they're so interesting! (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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[-] 200fifty@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

First: our sessions and guests were mostly not controversial — despite what you may have heard

Man, you invite one Nazi to speak at your conference and suddenly you're "the guys who invited a Nazi to speak at their conference." How is that fair? :-(

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The comments about the event are great over here. The initial poster talks about 8 invited racist speakers, but you could argue there were more like 10 or 12. The owners/organizers then talk about how the confrence had 60 speakers. They later say they would have backed off the "edginess" (i.e racism) by 5%.

So even by their own take, instead of having 15% racist invited speakers, they would prefer 10% invited racist speakers. We want 5 racists next time, not 8.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

no, they will go from 10 racist talks to 9.5 racist talks

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