Thanks Toby. The winning topic was, “Countering democratic backsliding is now a more urgent issue than more traditional longtermist concerns”?
I feel like this doesn’t violate your rules, because it’s discussing something “directly connected to cause EA areas”. Democracy isn’t a top three cause area, but it’s notnot a cause area. In any case, in my opinion the rules are obviously well-intentioned and mostly helpful, but at the end of the day it would be fine to bend them here.
Thanks Toby. The winning topic was, “Countering democratic backsliding is now a more urgent issue than more traditional longtermist concerns”?
I feel like this doesn’t violate your rules, because it’s discussing something “directly connected to cause EA areas”. Democracy isn’t a top three cause area, but it’s not not a cause area. In any case, in my opinion the rules are obviously well-intentioned and mostly helpful, but at the end of the day it would be fine to bend them here.