Thanks. I’ll think about the idea of doing a post, but, honestly, what I wrote was what I wanted to write. I don’t see the emotion or the intensity of the writing as a failure or an indulgence, but as me saying what I really mean, and saying what needs to be said. What good’s sugar-coating it?
Something that anyone can do (David Thorstad has given permission in comments I’ve seen) is simply repost the Reflective Altruism posts about LessWrong and about the EA Forum here, on the EA Forum. Those posts are extremely dry, extremely factual, and not particularly opinionated. They’re more investigative than argumentative.
I have thought about what, practically, to do about these problems in EA, but I don’t think I have particularly clear thoughts or good thoughts on that. An option that would feel deeply regrettable and unfortunate to me would be for the subset of the EA movement that shares my discomfort to try to distinguish itself under some label such as effective giving. (Someone could probably come up with a better label if they thought about it for a while.)
I hope that there is a way for people like me to save what they love about this movement. I would be curious to hear ideas about this from people who feel similarly.
Thanks. I’ll think about the idea of doing a post, but, honestly, what I wrote was what I wanted to write. I don’t see the emotion or the intensity of the writing as a failure or an indulgence, but as me saying what I really mean, and saying what needs to be said. What good’s sugar-coating it?
Something that anyone can do (David Thorstad has given permission in comments I’ve seen) is simply repost the Reflective Altruism posts about LessWrong and about the EA Forum here, on the EA Forum. Those posts are extremely dry, extremely factual, and not particularly opinionated. They’re more investigative than argumentative.
I have thought about what, practically, to do about these problems in EA, but I don’t think I have particularly clear thoughts or good thoughts on that. An option that would feel deeply regrettable and unfortunate to me would be for the subset of the EA movement that shares my discomfort to try to distinguish itself under some label such as effective giving. (Someone could probably come up with a better label if they thought about it for a while.)
I hope that there is a way for people like me to save what they love about this movement. I would be curious to hear ideas about this from people who feel similarly.