I felt this critique missed the mark, especially where it says EA hasn’t done anything—if nothing else, the sheer numbers of lives saved through bednets funded by the EA community is a compelling counterexample!
Also thought it was ironic that their argument for why we should focus more on the Global South rather than the future was comparing us to a character that Dickens skewers for, well, caring too much about the Global South rather than her own neighbourhood.
Yeah this is the problem with reasoning on vibes and righteous indignation and literary analogies instead of using your brain (which I have also been guilty of in the recent past). Morality is hard. Just repeating catcheisms of your preferred ideology is not a reliable way to make progress.
I felt this critique missed the mark, especially where it says EA hasn’t done anything—if nothing else, the sheer numbers of lives saved through bednets funded by the EA community is a compelling counterexample!
Also thought it was ironic that their argument for why we should focus more on the Global South rather than the future was comparing us to a character that Dickens skewers for, well, caring too much about the Global South rather than her own neighbourhood.
Yeah this is the problem with reasoning on vibes and righteous indignation and literary analogies instead of using your brain (which I have also been guilty of in the recent past). Morality is hard. Just repeating catcheisms of your preferred ideology is not a reliable way to make progress.