Personally, I see much of this article as unfair, but I imagine it will be successful in steering some readers away from engaging with the ideas of EA and longtermism.
I have a lot of thoughts about this article, but I don’t want to turn this into an opinion piece. I’ll just say that I like this quote from the recent conversation between Sam Harris and Will MacAskill: “ideas about existential risk and actually becoming rational around the real effects of efforts to do good, rather than the imagined effects or the hoped-for effects… all of that still stands. I mean, none of that was wrong, and none of that is shown to be wrong, by the example of Sam Bankman Fried, and so I do mourne any loss that those ideas have suffered in public perception because of this.” -Sam Harris, ~1:01:52, episode #361 of the Making Sense podcast.
The Guardian calls EA “cultish” and accuses the late FHI of “Eugenics on Steroids”
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Today, The Guardian published an article titled ” ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute ”. I thought I should flag this article here, since it’s such a major news organization presenting a rather scathing picture of EA and longtermism.
Personally, I see much of this article as unfair, but I imagine it will be successful in steering some readers away from engaging with the ideas of EA and longtermism.
I have a lot of thoughts about this article, but I don’t want to turn this into an opinion piece. I’ll just say that I like this quote from the recent conversation between Sam Harris and Will MacAskill: “ideas about existential risk and actually becoming rational around the real effects of efforts to do good, rather than the imagined effects or the hoped-for effects… all of that still stands. I mean, none of that was wrong, and none of that is shown to be wrong, by the example of Sam Bankman Fried, and so I do mourne any loss that those ideas have suffered in public perception because of this.” -Sam Harris, ~1:01:52, episode #361 of the Making Sense podcast.