Hi Rob, I agree with your and Ryan’s point that the poverty/animals/future split is something that evolved because of EA’s history, and I can imagine a world with different categories of cause areas.
But something that I keep seeing missed is this:
“A good introduction to EA would, at the very least, include a wide range of steel-manned positions about how to do the most good that are held by sincere, thoughtful, individuals aspiring to do the most good.”
I’m really troubled by any “Introduction to EA” that suggests EA is about long-termism. A brief intro saying “by the way, some people have different views to the following 20 hours of content!” is not sufficient. This should be relabelled as an intro to EA long-termism if it remains in its current form.
Hi Rob, I agree with your and Ryan’s point that the poverty/animals/future split is something that evolved because of EA’s history, and I can imagine a world with different categories of cause areas.
But something that I keep seeing missed is this:
I’m really troubled by any “Introduction to EA” that suggests EA is about long-termism. A brief intro saying “by the way, some people have different views to the following 20 hours of content!” is not sufficient. This should be relabelled as an intro to EA long-termism if it remains in its current form.