This is certainly a charitable reading of the article, and you are doing the right thing by trying to read it as generously as possible. I think they are indeed making this point:
the technocratic nature of the approach itself will only very rarely result in more funds going to the type of social justice philanthropy that we support with the Guerrilla Foundation – simply because the effects of such work are less easy to measure and they are less prominent among the Western, educated elites that make up the majority of the EA movement
This criticism is more than fair. I have to agree with it and simultaneously point out that of course this is a problem that many are aware of and are actively working to change. I don’t think that they’re explicitly arguing for the worldview I was outlining above. This is my own perception of the motivating worldview, and I find support in the authors’ explicit rejection of science and objectivity.
This is certainly a charitable reading of the article, and you are doing the right thing by trying to read it as generously as possible. I think they are indeed making this point:
This criticism is more than fair. I have to agree with it and simultaneously point out that of course this is a problem that many are aware of and are actively working to change. I don’t think that they’re explicitly arguing for the worldview I was outlining above. This is my own perception of the motivating worldview, and I find support in the authors’ explicit rejection of science and objectivity.