I don’t love this article but it’s fine. In general many other articles about EA are too negative so it doesn’t really seem worth writing a big correction when the median person who hears about EA probably hears about the right thing.
Specifically, are new readers gonna believe that EA has done a load of useful soul-searching because this articles says it? I doubt it. There are enough articles saying that EAs are a bunch of cynical psychopaths that many will probably assume this is the fluff piece (that it is).
I don’t really think this meta discussion is that high priority, the better question is, how does EA improve and focus back on effective altruism, but I don’t have a great answer to that, other than write articles specifically focused at that.
I don’t love this article but it’s fine. In general many other articles about EA are too negative so it doesn’t really seem worth writing a big correction when the median person who hears about EA probably hears about the right thing.
Specifically, are new readers gonna believe that EA has done a load of useful soul-searching because this articles says it? I doubt it. There are enough articles saying that EAs are a bunch of cynical psychopaths that many will probably assume this is the fluff piece (that it is).
I don’t really think this meta discussion is that high priority, the better question is, how does EA improve and focus back on effective altruism, but I don’t have a great answer to that, other than write articles specifically focused at that.