Your second question “Will the potential negative press and association with Democrats be too harmful to the EA movement to be worth it?” seems to ignore that a major group EAs will be running against will be democrats in primaries.
So it’s not only that you’re creating large incentives for republicans to attack EA, you’re also creating it for e.g. progressive democrats. See: Warren endorsing Flynn’s opponent & somewhat attacking flynn for crypto billionaire sellout stuff
That seems potentially pretty harmful too. It’d be much harder to be an active group on top universities if progressive groups strongly disliked EA.
Which I think they would, if EAs ran against progressives enough that Warren or Bernie or AOC more strongly criticized EA. Which would be in line the incentives we’re creating & general vibe [pretty skeptical of a bunch of white men, crypto billionaires, etc].
Your second question “Will the potential negative press and association with Democrats be too harmful to the EA movement to be worth it?” seems to ignore that a major group EAs will be running against will be democrats in primaries.
So it’s not only that you’re creating large incentives for republicans to attack EA, you’re also creating it for e.g. progressive democrats. See: Warren endorsing Flynn’s opponent & somewhat attacking flynn for crypto billionaire sellout stuff
That seems potentially pretty harmful too. It’d be much harder to be an active group on top universities if progressive groups strongly disliked EA.
Which I think they would, if EAs ran against progressives enough that Warren or Bernie or AOC more strongly criticized EA. Which would be in line the incentives we’re creating & general vibe [pretty skeptical of a bunch of white men, crypto billionaires, etc].