My objection was specifically to the claim that “the last few years have proven the value of the EA community” which is an absurd thing to say given the FTX debacle.
It’s also odd to ask for money without explaining why you have a funding gap, what role CEA played in FTX, whether it could have done better, what has changed etc
Can you say why you think it’s absurd? A lot of people doing seemingly impactful work say that the EA community substantially helped them (see above). The arguments I know of which claim that the harms from FTX outweigh this deny the assumption that EA work is actually impactful (specifically: they usually say something like 1. AI is the only thing that matters, and 2. EA work on RLHF etc. sped up capabilities more than safety, making the average impact small/negative).
If this is your view than fair enough, but it’s not one that I (or, I think, most people) share.
My objection was specifically to the claim that “the last few years have proven the value of the EA community” which is an absurd thing to say given the FTX debacle.
It’s also odd to ask for money without explaining why you have a funding gap, what role CEA played in FTX, whether it could have done better, what has changed etc
Can you say why you think it’s absurd? A lot of people doing seemingly impactful work say that the EA community substantially helped them (see above). The arguments I know of which claim that the harms from FTX outweigh this deny the assumption that EA work is actually impactful (specifically: they usually say something like 1. AI is the only thing that matters, and 2. EA work on RLHF etc. sped up capabilities more than safety, making the average impact small/negative).
If this is your view than fair enough, but it’s not one that I (or, I think, most people) share.