If you look at the article’s comments, there were far more people who disagreed with the authors than agreed. Also, EA is so small at this stage that even negative publicity means more people hear about us and are thus potentially encouraged to consider effective giving as an option.
Agreed on the potentially positive value of negative publicity, at this stage in the movement’s growth at least. We should be careful about how we expend our weirdness points, however.
If you look at the article’s comments, there were far more people who disagreed with the authors than agreed. Also, EA is so small at this stage that even negative publicity means more people hear about us and are thus potentially encouraged to consider effective giving as an option.
Agreed on the potentially positive value of negative publicity, at this stage in the movement’s growth at least. We should be careful about how we expend our weirdness points, however.