I partially agree, in that I want to see EA avoid making SBF a scapegoat for systemic problems in our organizations or ideology that could have led to the current series of events.
At the same time, if someone does something bad, character judgements are unavoidable. We all fall short of most particular ideals of moral perfection, but whatever your theological views on sin, someone’s past actions are one of the best guides we have to predict their future actions, and we’re going to need to make some inferences based on actions in the past to determine how much we trust what they’ll do in the future.
My primary concern is that—if we consider, for instance, that EV-maxxing or naive consequentalism was part of the ideology that led to the disaster, we have to correct the problem where-ever it is and not just condemn the singular person who happened to live by an ideology that many people in the movement might share.
I think we’re pretty much in agreement.
Forgiveness does men forgetting and failing to learn the lessons.
I certainly don’t in any way want to condone the actions. I just want to make sure we direct our energy to the future and how to move on from this.
I partially agree, in that I want to see EA avoid making SBF a scapegoat for systemic problems in our organizations or ideology that could have led to the current series of events.
At the same time, if someone does something bad, character judgements are unavoidable. We all fall short of most particular ideals of moral perfection, but whatever your theological views on sin, someone’s past actions are one of the best guides we have to predict their future actions, and we’re going to need to make some inferences based on actions in the past to determine how much we trust what they’ll do in the future.
My primary concern is that—if we consider, for instance, that EV-maxxing or naive consequentalism was part of the ideology that led to the disaster, we have to correct the problem where-ever it is and not just condemn the singular person who happened to live by an ideology that many people in the movement might share.
I think we’re pretty much in agreement. Forgiveness does men forgetting and failing to learn the lessons. I certainly don’t in any way want to condone the actions. I just want to make sure we direct our energy to the future and how to move on from this.