Nice post, Richard! Do you have any takes on potential ways people in the effective altruism community are morally self-indulging, even if to a lesser extent than in the examples you mention?
Funnily enough, the main example that springs to mind is the excessive self-flagellation post-FTX. Many distanced themselves from the community and its optimizing norms/āmindsetāfor understandable reasons, but ones more closely tied to āexpressingā (and personal reputation management) than to actually āhelpingā, IMO.
Iād be curious to hear if others think of further candidate examples.
Nice post, Richard! Do you have any takes on potential ways people in the effective altruism community are morally self-indulging, even if to a lesser extent than in the examples you mention?
Funnily enough, the main example that springs to mind is the excessive self-flagellation post-FTX. Many distanced themselves from the community and its optimizing norms/āmindsetāfor understandable reasons, but ones more closely tied to āexpressingā (and personal reputation management) than to actually āhelpingā, IMO.
Iād be curious to hear if others think of further candidate examples.