Comment by Serine on EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem · 2023-10-08T11:26:50.301Z · LW · GW

The line about "carnists" strikes me as outgroup homogeneity, conceptual gerrymandering, The Worst Argument In The World - call it what you want, but it should be something rationalists should have antibodies against.

Specifically, equivocating between "carnists [meat industry lobbyists]" and "carnists [EA non-vegans]" seems to me like known anti-truthseeking behavior.

So the question, as I see you posing, is whether NinetyThree prefers being in an epistemic environment with people who care about epistemic truthseeking (EA non-vegans) or with people for whom your best defense is that they're no worse than meat industry lobbyists.