To expand on my last point: my understanding of effective altruism is that it is expansive. Generous. About becoming “more the people we wished we were”. I do not see it as a movement that ridicules or comes from schadenfreude or is punitive. The AM hack is the result of horribly unethical business and software practices, and its fallout is causing a lot of suffering. That’s why I think it’s bad for EA’s image if ‘we’ are seen to be joking about it.
Committing adultery causes a lot of suffering. Punishing people for anti-social behavior is an important part of any society, to incentivize good behavior. To the extent that western societies hardly punish this behavior at all, despite the huge amounts of suffering it causes, appropriately disincentivizing it could be an extremely effective way of improving the world.
To expand on my last point: my understanding of effective altruism is that it is expansive. Generous. About becoming “more the people we wished we were”. I do not see it as a movement that ridicules or comes from schadenfreude or is punitive. The AM hack is the result of horribly unethical business and software practices, and its fallout is causing a lot of suffering. That’s why I think it’s bad for EA’s image if ‘we’ are seen to be joking about it.
Committing adultery causes a lot of suffering. Punishing people for anti-social behavior is an important part of any society, to incentivize good behavior. To the extent that western societies hardly punish this behavior at all, despite the huge amounts of suffering it causes, appropriately disincentivizing it could be an extremely effective way of improving the world.