Enter a new contest, EA Criticism and Red Teaming, where participants critique a theory or empirical work from effective altruism.
This is one kind of EA criticism. There’s another, pretty different kind of criticism, which is criticism of EA as a city. Eg. is EA a good place to live? What are the messages that EA sends to it’s inhabitants? Are they good messages?
Another way of getting at this distinction: critiquing EA ideas vs. EA culture.
I have some criticisms of/ beefs with/ constructive feedback for EA which I’ve procrastinated writing for a long time/ felt a bit stuck on. One of the (charitable) reasons for my procrastination, is, I think, that I’ve been trying to critique EA as a theory, but actually what I want to critique is more EA as a city. A bad analogy: Like someone living in New York, not really liking the vibe, and aiming to understand or communicate this by writing a long google doc about New York’s policies.
Interesting, I’d be interested in reading that. I think thinking about what culture (or virtues) EA should optimally have is a bit an underrated angle. Cf 1, 2.
EA Criticism and EA as a City
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This is one kind of EA criticism. There’s another, pretty different kind of criticism, which is criticism of EA as a city. Eg. is EA a good place to live? What are the messages that EA sends to it’s inhabitants? Are they good messages?
Another way of getting at this distinction: critiquing EA ideas vs. EA culture.
I have some criticisms of/ beefs with/ constructive feedback for EA which I’ve procrastinated writing for a long time/ felt a bit stuck on. One of the (charitable) reasons for my procrastination, is, I think, that I’ve been trying to critique EA as a theory, but actually what I want to critique is more EA as a city. A bad analogy: Like someone living in New York, not really liking the vibe, and aiming to understand or communicate this by writing a long google doc about New York’s policies.
Interesting, I’d be interested in reading that. I think thinking about what culture (or virtues) EA should optimally have is a bit an underrated angle. Cf 1, 2.