I agree, the most striking part of this article was that this core assumption had no numerical data to back it up. Only his own discussions with high level EAs.
“Due to the reputational collapse of EA”
High level EAs are more likely to have closer involvement with SBF/FTX and therefore more likely to have higher levels of reputational Loss than the average EA, or even the movement as a whole. I would confidently guess that the “200-800” EAs who lost big on FTX would skew heavily towards the top of the leadership structure.
The three studies cited here in the comment, and a few from community organisers provide evidence that yes EA had reputationally suffered, but hardly collapsed. Why did not at least mention those? Maybe because it was a February draft, but I would have thought revising to cite what data is available is a good idea?
The OP might be right that the situation is worse than appears on what research we have, but I would have thought that making arguments against the validity of the research would have been a good idea.
I agree, the most striking part of this article was that this core assumption had no numerical data to back it up. Only his own discussions with high level EAs.
“Due to the reputational collapse of EA”
High level EAs are more likely to have closer involvement with SBF/FTX and therefore more likely to have higher levels of reputational Loss than the average EA, or even the movement as a whole. I would confidently guess that the “200-800” EAs who lost big on FTX would skew heavily towards the top of the leadership structure.
The three studies cited here in the comment, and a few from community organisers provide evidence that yes EA had reputationally suffered, but hardly collapsed. Why did not at least mention those? Maybe because it was a February draft, but I would have thought revising to cite what data is available is a good idea?
The OP might be right that the situation is worse than appears on what research we have, but I would have thought that making arguments against the validity of the research would have been a good idea.