I am grateful for this post and think it demonstrates bravery that Rohit didn’t need to show. He’s a thoughtful, accomplished professional who has approximately no personal incentive to writing this out.
I hope readers who wish for a healthy community around the ideas of effective altruism, and who want thoughtful engagement from people exploring similar questions that effective altruists consider important in good faith, reflect on the damage that the discourse of the past few days (and the incident that kicked it off in terms of Bostrom’s poor statement on historical failings) has caused to the mission to make the world a better and safer place.
I am grateful for this post and think it demonstrates bravery that Rohit didn’t need to show. He’s a thoughtful, accomplished professional who has approximately no personal incentive to writing this out.
I hope readers who wish for a healthy community around the ideas of effective altruism, and who want thoughtful engagement from people exploring similar questions that effective altruists consider important in good faith, reflect on the damage that the discourse of the past few days (and the incident that kicked it off in terms of Bostrom’s poor statement on historical failings) has caused to the mission to make the world a better and safer place.