Let me kick off on point 4: I don’t think it is accidental that EA’s philanthropic model of social change leads to the concentration of power in the hands of a few people with outsized riches, or control over those riches. Why has the movement never even thought of democratising itself? Recall that JS Mill, being the utilitarian he was, argued for democracy on instrumental grounds—mostly because it led to better epistemic and cultural outcomes.
Much more sensible.
Let me kick off on point 4: I don’t think it is accidental that EA’s philanthropic model of social change leads to the concentration of power in the hands of a few people with outsized riches, or control over those riches. Why has the movement never even thought of democratising itself? Recall that JS Mill, being the utilitarian he was, argued for democracy on instrumental grounds—mostly because it led to better epistemic and cultural outcomes.