It seems really clear that the social network of EA played a huge role in FTX’s existence, so it seems like you would agree that the community should play some role, but then for some reason you are then additionally constraining things to the effect of some ill-specified ideology
No, I agree with you now that at the very least EA is highly complicit if not genuinely entirely responsible for causing FTX.
I don’t think we actually disagree on anything at this point. I’m just pointing out that, if the community completely disbanded and LessWrong shut down and rationalists stopped talking to each other and trained themselves not to think about things in rationalist terms, and after all that AU-Yudkowsky still decided to rob a bank, then there’s a meaningful sense in which the Inevitable Robbery was never “the rationality community’s” fault even though AU-Yudkowsky is a quintessential member. At least, it implies a different sort of calculus WRT considering the alternative world without the rationality community.
No, I agree with you now that at the very least EA is highly complicit if not genuinely entirely responsible for causing FTX.
I don’t think we actually disagree on anything at this point. I’m just pointing out that, if the community completely disbanded and LessWrong shut down and rationalists stopped talking to each other and trained themselves not to think about things in rationalist terms, and after all that AU-Yudkowsky still decided to rob a bank, then there’s a meaningful sense in which the Inevitable Robbery was never “the rationality community’s” fault even though AU-Yudkowsky is a quintessential member. At least, it implies a different sort of calculus WRT considering the alternative world without the rationality community.