Thanks! Now that SBF has been disavowed do you think EA still has a big problem with under-emphasising conflicts of interest?
I still think the best critiques benefit from being extremely concrete and that article could have had more impact if it spent less time on the high-level concept of “conflicts of interest” and more time explicitely saying “crypto is bad and it’s a problem that so many in the community don’t see this”
I’m not the author, but there was a very prescient critique submitted to the EA criticism contest, that went underappreciated. https://medium.com/@sven_rone/the-effective-altruism-movement-is-not-above-conflicts-of-interest-25f7125220a5
UPDATE: actually I realised did specifically mention this critique as an example.
Thanks! Now that SBF has been disavowed do you think EA still has a big problem with under-emphasising conflicts of interest?
I still think the best critiques benefit from being extremely concrete and that article could have had more impact if it spent less time on the high-level concept of “conflicts of interest” and more time explicitely saying “crypto is bad and it’s a problem that so many in the community don’t see this”
I felt the article was pretty concrete in saying exactly that,”crypto is bad …”. It didn’t strike me as high level/ abstract at all.