The final article had a title change and it was made clear numerous times that it was a personal analysis, not necessarily representing the views of Effective Altruism. In fact, we worked off the premise of voting to maximise wellbeing, not to further EA.
I posted it here and shared it with EAs because they are used to thinking about ways to maximise wellbeing, and I’ve never seen an analysis that looks at multiple parties and policies to try and select the ‘best’ party (many have agreed that this doesn’t seem to have been done before). I figured the title including ‘draft’ would make it clear that this is by no means a final piece, but perhaps I could have been clearer. I think not making an attempt to select the best party at all is also problematic.
Here is the final piece if you are interested, although the election is over now.
If EA becomes an explicitly political movement, people who disagree with it will not join; non-political donations are distinct from politics in the sense that they do not need to be identified with one side or another; EA values might be associated with one side or another, but this is an official-seeming EA venue, not just a private-ish place for discussion.
Happy to hear what they are Alex.
The final article had a title change and it was made clear numerous times that it was a personal analysis, not necessarily representing the views of Effective Altruism. In fact, we worked off the premise of voting to maximise wellbeing, not to further EA.
I posted it here and shared it with EAs because they are used to thinking about ways to maximise wellbeing, and I’ve never seen an analysis that looks at multiple parties and policies to try and select the ‘best’ party (many have agreed that this doesn’t seem to have been done before). I figured the title including ‘draft’ would make it clear that this is by no means a final piece, but perhaps I could have been clearer. I think not making an attempt to select the best party at all is also problematic.
Here is the final piece if you are interested, although the election is over now.
http://www.michaeldello.com/?p=839
Oh hey, didn’t see this at the time.
If EA becomes an explicitly political movement, people who disagree with it will not join; non-political donations are distinct from politics in the sense that they do not need to be identified with one side or another; EA values might be associated with one side or another, but this is an official-seeming EA venue, not just a private-ish place for discussion.