I ended up strong downvoting your comment because I don’t want concerns about PR risk to be top comment on this post.
I trust EA as a high quality source of information on charity, mainly because EA presents itself as impartial to causes, objective, and acts with honesty and integrity. This post seemed well researched and made in good faith to me, and your willingness to censor it for making the movement look bad makes me trust the quality of information on this forum seriously.
If you believe something is false, just criticize it for being false.
If you don’t like it, just say you don’t like it.
Your personal favor towards malaria nets, and your personal distaste for this post is totally okay. I just don’t think PR considerations should be primarily what EA forum is about. It is also counterproductive. To put it rudely, you are not cool enough to care about PR. You are not ready to critique aesthetics, vibes, and taste-making; not without making things worse. The forum is not a good canvas. It is not designed to be. It should not try to be.
Please continue to do lots of research, math, and compassion. If you must care about appearance, please go about it in a positive, truth-seeking way—clarity in writing, true and rousing depictions of suffering, that kind of thing.
Fair enough comment, and I love that you commented to justify the downvote. I respect that perspective that PR risk shouldn’t be an important concern within EA and think its a reasonable argument, even though I disagree.
I ended up strong downvoting your comment because I don’t want concerns about PR risk to be top comment on this post.
I trust EA as a high quality source of information on charity, mainly because EA presents itself as impartial to causes, objective, and acts with honesty and integrity. This post seemed well researched and made in good faith to me, and your willingness to censor it for making the movement look bad makes me trust the quality of information on this forum seriously.
If you believe something is false, just criticize it for being false.
If you don’t like it, just say you don’t like it.
Your personal favor towards malaria nets, and your personal distaste for this post is totally okay. I just don’t think PR considerations should be primarily what EA forum is about.
It is also counterproductive. To put it rudely, you are not cool enough to care about PR. You are not ready to critique aesthetics, vibes, and taste-making; not without making things worse. The forum is not a good canvas. It is not designed to be. It should not try to be.
Please continue to do lots of research, math, and compassion. If you must care about appearance, please go about it in a positive, truth-seeking way—clarity in writing, true and rousing depictions of suffering, that kind of thing.
Fair enough comment, and I love that you commented to justify the downvote. I respect that perspective that PR risk shouldn’t be an important concern within EA and think its a reasonable argument, even though I disagree.