I can certainly see how this proposal has upsides.
On the flipside, not being able to easily find such musings might also backfire. E.g. in the era before the FTX crisis, a journalist wanting to write about the culture of excess wealth in EA may have felt honour-bound to give at least some credit to the fact that the community was conscious of this and concerned about it if they had easily found George’s post on the EA forum.
This proposal may still be the right thing to do, I just wanted to make sure multiple perspectives were considered.
Also worth considering: the majority of people googling about a scandal will not be journalists. Some people may be googling EA because the scandal concerned them, but they want to see the EA response, and if they don’t see it, they might falsely assume that EA doesn’t care.
On a more practical point, I think it would be bad if this change reduced the visibility of the community health team and other efforts to mitigate bad behaviour.
I can certainly see how this proposal has upsides.
On the flipside, not being able to easily find such musings might also backfire. E.g. in the era before the FTX crisis, a journalist wanting to write about the culture of excess wealth in EA may have felt honour-bound to give at least some credit to the fact that the community was conscious of this and concerned about it if they had easily found George’s post on the EA forum.
This proposal may still be the right thing to do, I just wanted to make sure multiple perspectives were considered.
Also worth considering: the majority of people googling about a scandal will not be journalists. Some people may be googling EA because the scandal concerned them, but they want to see the EA response, and if they don’t see it, they might falsely assume that EA doesn’t care.
On a more practical point, I think it would be bad if this change reduced the visibility of the community health team and other efforts to mitigate bad behaviour.