It only relates to it insofar as someone could view your post (just looking at the title) as implying socialism and EA (at the broadest level, trying to do the most good we can with resources) are at odds. In reality, a lot of critics of EA are addressing the community’s choice of priorities rather than EA at the broadest level. I would prefer it if such critics embraced the EA framework explicitly and made the case that their cause area or philosophy is actually the most EA, if this is pretty much what they are doing.
There’s a lot of conflation between what the EA community is prioritizing at any given point and EA as a philosophy to guide moral behavior. I think this conflation probably does a lot of damage to EA’s ability to proliferate.
It only relates to it insofar as someone could view your post (just looking at the title) as implying socialism and EA (at the broadest level, trying to do the most good we can with resources) are at odds. In reality, a lot of critics of EA are addressing the community’s choice of priorities rather than EA at the broadest level. I would prefer it if such critics embraced the EA framework explicitly and made the case that their cause area or philosophy is actually the most EA, if this is pretty much what they are doing.
There’s a lot of conflation between what the EA community is prioritizing at any given point and EA as a philosophy to guide moral behavior. I think this conflation probably does a lot of damage to EA’s ability to proliferate.
Agree!