Maybe it is possible through Topic Filters to distinguish between 1) criticism of EA as a philosophy and 2) criticism of actions of people? It is possible for something to cover both, e.g. when EA principles led someone to do things that ended badly. This would mean both the FTX drama and the current drama are solely in that second category. FTX because fraud is against EA principles and as such is only the consequence of personal actions, Bostrom because what he said in that e-mail isn’t related to doing the most good possible (at all).
I think this is too much nuance to be well captured by a tag system. I think one function of discussing an event is trying to apportion blame between individual idiosyncrasies vs. a broader pattern of the movement. That kind of distinction shouldn’t precede the discussion itself.
Maybe it is possible through Topic Filters to distinguish between 1) criticism of EA as a philosophy and 2) criticism of actions of people? It is possible for something to cover both, e.g. when EA principles led someone to do things that ended badly. This would mean both the FTX drama and the current drama are solely in that second category. FTX because fraud is against EA principles and as such is only the consequence of personal actions, Bostrom because what he said in that e-mail isn’t related to doing the most good possible (at all).
I think this is too much nuance to be well captured by a tag system. I think one function of discussing an event is trying to apportion blame between individual idiosyncrasies vs. a broader pattern of the movement. That kind of distinction shouldn’t precede the discussion itself.