Yes. I didn’t even read the “we” in the initial post as referring to EA, because this doesn’t seem at all like something EA would be involved in, because the issue is small-scale (compared to “hundreds of thousands of people die each year” or “we are at risk of extinction”), and extremely non-neglected (huge amounts of funding and cultural capital on all “sides” of the issue). As you note, the current state of the issue seems to be “asinine and distracting”.
I read “we” as “people in the broader culture”, and the Forum as a place to ask a question about generic problem-solving (which is fine — over the years, people have asked questions about a variety of cause areas that aren’t connected to EA).
Yes. I didn’t even read the “we” in the initial post as referring to EA, because this doesn’t seem at all like something EA would be involved in, because the issue is small-scale (compared to “hundreds of thousands of people die each year” or “we are at risk of extinction”), and extremely non-neglected (huge amounts of funding and cultural capital on all “sides” of the issue). As you note, the current state of the issue seems to be “asinine and distracting”.
I read “we” as “people in the broader culture”, and the Forum as a place to ask a question about generic problem-solving (which is fine — over the years, people have asked questions about a variety of cause areas that aren’t connected to EA).