I’d be worried that—even assuming the funding did not actually influence the content of the speech—the author being perceived as on the EA payroll would seriously diminish the effectiveness of this work. Maybe that is less true in the context of a professional journal where the author’s reputation is well-known to the reader than it would be somewhere like Wired, though?
I’d be worried that—even assuming the funding did not actually influence the content of the speech—the author being perceived as on the EA payroll would seriously diminish the effectiveness of this work. Maybe that is less true in the context of a professional journal where the author’s reputation is well-known to the reader than it would be somewhere like Wired, though?