Exactly, he has written posts about those topics, and about ‘effective action’, predictions and so on. And there is this article from 2016 which claims ‘he is an advocate of effective altruism’, although it then says ‘his argument is mothball the department (DFID)’, which I’m fairly sure most EAs would disagree with.
But as he’s also written about a huge number of other things, day-to-day distractions are apparently the rule rather than the exception in policy roles, and value drift is always possible, it would be good to have someone on his team, or with good communication channels to them, who can re-emphasise these issues (without publicly associating EA with Cummings or any other political figure or party).
Exactly, he has written posts about those topics, and about ‘effective action’, predictions and so on. And there is this article from 2016 which claims ‘he is an advocate of effective altruism’, although it then says ‘his argument is mothball the department (DFID)’, which I’m fairly sure most EAs would disagree with.
But as he’s also written about a huge number of other things, day-to-day distractions are apparently the rule rather than the exception in policy roles, and value drift is always possible, it would be good to have someone on his team, or with good communication channels to them, who can re-emphasise these issues (without publicly associating EA with Cummings or any other political figure or party).