Pablo—thanks for sharing the link to this excellent essay.
Apart from being a great intro to EA for people made semi-skeptical by the FTX and OpenAI situations, Scott Alexander’s writing style is also worthy of broader emulation among EAs. It’s light, crisp, clear, funny, fact-based—it’s everything that EA writing for the public should be.
Pablo—thanks for sharing the link to this excellent essay.
Apart from being a great intro to EA for people made semi-skeptical by the FTX and OpenAI situations, Scott Alexander’s writing style is also worthy of broader emulation among EAs. It’s light, crisp, clear, funny, fact-based—it’s everything that EA writing for the public should be.
I very much agree. Here’s a post by Scott with nonfiction writing advice.