If EA starts to abandon internal norms about factual communication that’s bad. It hinders what EA is about. When a GiveWell analyst gets told not to speak about the drawbacks of a certain cause because that might demotivate people to donate to that cause, that’s a problem. That kind of behavior should happen less not more.
Fighting for keeping the core norms intact is important.
If EA starts to abandon internal norms about factual communication that’s bad. It hinders what EA is about. When a GiveWell analyst gets told not to speak about the drawbacks of a certain cause because that might demotivate people to donate to that cause, that’s a problem. That kind of behavior should happen less not more.
Fighting for keeping the core norms intact is important.