I would think associating the EA “brand” with drug legalisation would cause a negative reaction among at least as many people who would appreciate it because it shows concern for systemic change. I also don’t see how it more of an example of systemic change than changing animal welfare laws to ban a lot of current practices, or regulating AI, to cite two political goals that some EA pursue.
I also think the fact that it is non-neglected means that anyone who thinks this is the most good they can do could easily find a current organisation to join and campaign with. I think figuring out which campaigning methods are most effective is something where EA methodology does not have much advantage anyway, so little reason to think an EA-aligned organisation would be unusally effective.
I was waiting for this! I thought there were going to be lots of “this would be bad for the EA brand” comments. As some evidence against this, and to my surprise, across all the places where I posted this, or saw others post it (on the EA forum, facebook, and twitter) the post received very little pushback.
I was actually pretty disappointed with this as it made me think it hadn’t reached many who would disagree. On the plus side, this suggests this cause is not going to objectionable amongst people who are sympathetic to EA ideas.
Re the second para, I wasn’t claiming that a new organisation would need to exist. My concern what whether it was reasonable to think this is where (for someone) their money or time could do the most good. That doesn’t imply they would need to start something.
I would think associating the EA “brand” with drug legalisation would cause a negative reaction among at least as many people who would appreciate it because it shows concern for systemic change. I also don’t see how it more of an example of systemic change than changing animal welfare laws to ban a lot of current practices, or regulating AI, to cite two political goals that some EA pursue.
I also think the fact that it is non-neglected means that anyone who thinks this is the most good they can do could easily find a current organisation to join and campaign with. I think figuring out which campaigning methods are most effective is something where EA methodology does not have much advantage anyway, so little reason to think an EA-aligned organisation would be unusally effective.
I was waiting for this! I thought there were going to be lots of “this would be bad for the EA brand” comments. As some evidence against this, and to my surprise, across all the places where I posted this, or saw others post it (on the EA forum, facebook, and twitter) the post received very little pushback.
I was actually pretty disappointed with this as it made me think it hadn’t reached many who would disagree. On the plus side, this suggests this cause is not going to objectionable amongst people who are sympathetic to EA ideas.
Re the second para, I wasn’t claiming that a new organisation would need to exist. My concern what whether it was reasonable to think this is where (for someone) their money or time could do the most good. That doesn’t imply they would need to start something.