The community is shifting more long-termist because of intentional decisions that were made—there’s no reason that these shifts have to be locked into place if there happens to be a good reason to shift away from them—not suggesting there is one! If the shift turns out to be a mistake in the future, we should be happy to move away from it, not say “oh but the community may shift towards it in the future”, especially when that shift is caused by intentional decisions in EA leadership.
Publishing What We Owe the Future was an intentional decision, but there’s a sense in which people read whatever people write and make up their own minds.
“Oh but the community may shift towards it in the future”—I guess some of these shifts are pretty predictable in advance, but that’s less important than the point I was making about maintaining option value especially for options that are looking increasingly high value.
I don’t know what you mean by intentional or not.
But my guess is that the community will shift more long-termist after more people have had time to digest What We Owe the Future.
The community is shifting more long-termist because of intentional decisions that were made—there’s no reason that these shifts have to be locked into place if there happens to be a good reason to shift away from them—not suggesting there is one! If the shift turns out to be a mistake in the future, we should be happy to move away from it, not say “oh but the community may shift towards it in the future”, especially when that shift is caused by intentional decisions in EA leadership.
I guess this is why I asked what you meant.
Publishing What We Owe the Future was an intentional decision, but there’s a sense in which people read whatever people write and make up their own minds.
“Oh but the community may shift towards it in the future”—I guess some of these shifts are pretty predictable in advance, but that’s less important than the point I was making about maintaining option value especially for options that are looking increasingly high value.