It’s very refreshing to read a criticism of EA that isn’t chock-full of straw men. Kudos to the authors for doing their best to represent EA fairly. That’s not usually the case for articles that accuse EA of neglecting ‘systemic change’.
That said, their worldview feels incredibly alien to me. It’s difficult for me to state any point where I think they make clear errors. Rather, it seems I just have entirely different priors than the authors. What they take for granted, I find completely unintuitive.
Writing in length about where our priors seem to differ, would more or less be a rehash of prior debates on EA and systemic change.
I would love to have the authors of this come on an EA podcast, and hear their views expressed in more detail. Usually when I think something is clearly wrong I can explain why, here I can’t.
It would be a shame if I were wrong longer than necessary.
It’s very refreshing to read a criticism of EA that isn’t chock-full of straw men.
Kudos to the authors for doing their best to represent EA fairly.
That’s not usually the case for articles that accuse EA of neglecting ‘systemic change’.
That said, their worldview feels incredibly alien to me.
It’s difficult for me to state any point where I think they make clear errors.
Rather, it seems I just have entirely different priors than the authors.
What they take for granted, I find completely unintuitive.
Writing in length about where our priors seem to differ, would more or less be a rehash of prior debates on EA and systemic change.
I would love to have the authors of this come on an EA podcast, and hear their views expressed in more detail. Usually when I think something is clearly wrong I can explain why, here I can’t.
It would be a shame if I were wrong longer than necessary.