I read the posts I could find on this topic on the forum, none of which mention a PR agency or hiring a PR team for the movement
I’ve talked about this with a lot of other EA professionals and no one has mentioned that this idea is coming, although all of them thought it was a good idea to some degree
I posted it as an idea for FTX and it wasn’t taken up, without feedback or any suggestion that it was already happening
I visited the many examples of mainstream press criticism of EA cited in other posts and saw no response or comment ‘from EA’
But, most importantly, the things you list here don’t address the suggestion of this post. Individual orgs being advised by PR professionals, or Longview aiming for more press coverage, has at best partial overlap with the effect of a dedicated PR team for EA.
This is also self-evidently not having the effect of countering op-eds like this one (although that might be low priority work).
So, when OFTW, at least one GiveWell charity and presumably others are forwarded this op-ed by potential or actual major donors, and there is crickets ‘from EA’ in response, I think it’s pretty reasonable to say ‘this seems like a good idea—can we make it happen?’
Thanks Ben. A few things:
I read the posts I could find on this topic on the forum, none of which mention a PR agency or hiring a PR team for the movement
I’ve talked about this with a lot of other EA professionals and no one has mentioned that this idea is coming, although all of them thought it was a good idea to some degree
I posted it as an idea for FTX and it wasn’t taken up, without feedback or any suggestion that it was already happening
I visited the many examples of mainstream press criticism of EA cited in other posts and saw no response or comment ‘from EA’
But, most importantly, the things you list here don’t address the suggestion of this post. Individual orgs being advised by PR professionals, or Longview aiming for more press coverage, has at best partial overlap with the effect of a dedicated PR team for EA.
This is also self-evidently not having the effect of countering op-eds like this one (although that might be low priority work).
So, when OFTW, at least one GiveWell charity and presumably others are forwarded this op-ed by potential or actual major donors, and there is crickets ‘from EA’ in response, I think it’s pretty reasonable to say ‘this seems like a good idea—can we make it happen?’