Cluelessness: Summary of the argument, why it matters, and counterarguments by Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸

·Nuno Sempere··

I’d like to elicit di­rect, pro­duc­tive cri­tiques of the ar­gu­ment for clue­less­ness from my se­quence on “un­aware­ness”, which I’ll call the un­aware­ness ar­gu­ment. To that end, this post will: break down the un­aware­ness ar­gu­ment at a high level;ex­plain why the EA com­mu­nity should care about this ar­gu­ment; andsum­ma­rize the an­gles for cri­tiquing the ar­gu­ment that I ex­pect to be most pro­duc­tive, and how the se­quence re­sponds to ex­ist­ing cri­tiques. Ar­gu­ment breakdow...

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