Eventually, a re-negotiated relationship style of EA with billionaire funders: donating large amounts of money is worth some amount of social reward, but not a ‘hero worship’ amount. We should in future be more ready to criticise the way in which billionaire donors make their fortunes (e.g. the critique that making a fortune in crypto facilitates people getting scammed), rather than overlooking ways in which people might do harm with EtG (I know I had had cognitive dissonance about this re FTX).
Eventually, a re-negotiated relationship style of EA with billionaire funders: donating large amounts of money is worth some amount of social reward, but not a ‘hero worship’ amount. We should in future be more ready to criticise the way in which billionaire donors make their fortunes (e.g. the critique that making a fortune in crypto facilitates people getting scammed), rather than overlooking ways in which people might do harm with EtG (I know I had had cognitive dissonance about this re FTX).