Events of the last few months have shown that in the last few years many whistleblowers weren’t taken seriously enough. If they had been, a lot of problems in EA that have come to pass might have been avoided or prevented entirely. They at least could have been resolved much sooner and before the damage became so great.
As much as more effective altruists have come to recognize this in the last year, one case I think deserves to be revisited but hasn’t been is this review of problems in EA and related research communities originally written by Simon Knutsson in 2019, based on his own experiences working in the field.
I’d be curious about more concretization on this, if possible. I don’t think my current model is that “whistleblowers weren’t taken seriously enough” is the reason a bunch of bad stuff happened here, but there’s something that rhymes with that that I maybe do agree with.
I wrote my other reply yesterday from my smartphone and it was hard to tell which one of my short form posts you were replying to, so I thought it was a different one and that’s why my comment from yesterday may not have seemed so relevant. I’m sorry for any confusion.
Anyway, why I’m posting short forms like this too is that they’re thoughts on my mind I want to express for at least some effective altruists to notice, though I’m not prepared right now to contend with the feedback and potential controversy that makings these as top level posts would provoke right now.
It’s long enough to be a top level post, though I didn’t have time around the days these thoughts were on my mind to flesh it out more, with links or more details, or time to address what I’m sure would be a lot of good questions I’d receive. I wouldn’t want to post before it could be of better quality.
I’ve started using my short form to draft stubs or snippets of top level posts. I’d appreciate any comments or feedback on them encouraging me to turn them it top level posts, or, alternatively, feedback even discouraging me from turning them into a top level post if someone would think it’s worthwhile.
Events of the last few months have shown that in the last few years many whistleblowers weren’t taken seriously enough. If they had been, a lot of problems in EA that have come to pass might have been avoided or prevented entirely. They at least could have been resolved much sooner and before the damage became so great.
As much as more effective altruists have come to recognize this in the last year, one case I think deserves to be revisited but hasn’t been is this review of problems in EA and related research communities originally written by Simon Knutsson in 2019, based on his own experiences working in the field.
https://www.simonknutsson.com/problems-in-effective-altruism-and-existential-risk-and-what-to-do-about-them/
I’d be curious about more concretization on this, if possible. I don’t think my current model is that “whistleblowers weren’t taken seriously enough” is the reason a bunch of bad stuff happened here, but there’s something that rhymes with that that I maybe do agree with.
Why are you posting these shortform instead of as a top level post?
I wrote my other reply yesterday from my smartphone and it was hard to tell which one of my short form posts you were replying to, so I thought it was a different one and that’s why my comment from yesterday may not have seemed so relevant. I’m sorry for any confusion.
Anyway, why I’m posting short forms like this too is that they’re thoughts on my mind I want to express for at least some effective altruists to notice, though I’m not prepared right now to contend with the feedback and potential controversy that makings these as top level posts would provoke right now.
It’s long enough to be a top level post, though I didn’t have time around the days these thoughts were on my mind to flesh it out more, with links or more details, or time to address what I’m sure would be a lot of good questions I’d receive. I wouldn’t want to post before it could be of better quality.
I’ve started using my short form to draft stubs or snippets of top level posts. I’d appreciate any comments or feedback on them encouraging me to turn them it top level posts, or, alternatively, feedback even discouraging me from turning them into a top level post if someone would think it’s worthwhile.