I found this very concerning. I posted it but then a helpful admin showed me where it was already posted, I need to be better at searching :D
When we consider the impact of this, we need to forget for a moment everything we know about EA and imagine the impact this will have on someone who has never heard of EA, or who has just a vague idea about it.
I do not agree at all with the content of the article, and especially not with the tone of the article, which frankly surprised me from the Guardian. But even this shows how marginal EA is, even in the UK—that one columnist can write a pretty ill-informed and unresearched article, and apparently nobody challenged it.
BUT: I also see an opportunity. If someone credible from the UK EA community were to write an even, balanced rebuttal of this piece, that might turn this into a positive. Focusing on the way that people like Tony Ord choose to live frugally and donate most of their salary to good causes as being far more reflective of EA than the constant reference to SBF (who of course is one of the very few EA’s mentioned in the article).
I’m not sure the editors at the Guardian realise how closely EA’s philosophy aligns with many of the values they promote, and maybe this is a chance to change that and get some positive publicity.
I found this very concerning. I posted it but then a helpful admin showed me where it was already posted, I need to be better at searching :D
When we consider the impact of this, we need to forget for a moment everything we know about EA and imagine the impact this will have on someone who has never heard of EA, or who has just a vague idea about it.
I do not agree at all with the content of the article, and especially not with the tone of the article, which frankly surprised me from the Guardian. But even this shows how marginal EA is, even in the UK—that one columnist can write a pretty ill-informed and unresearched article, and apparently nobody challenged it.
BUT: I also see an opportunity. If someone credible from the UK EA community were to write an even, balanced rebuttal of this piece, that might turn this into a positive. Focusing on the way that people like Tony Ord choose to live frugally and donate most of their salary to good causes as being far more reflective of EA than the constant reference to SBF (who of course is one of the very few EA’s mentioned in the article).
I’m not sure the editors at the Guardian realise how closely EA’s philosophy aligns with many of the values they promote, and maybe this is a chance to change that and get some positive publicity.