I brought this up a few months ago in a larger comment on optics and it did not go over well. Glad to see people upvoting this (your phrasing of the issue is much better than mine!).
Another element I’ve thought of since, is that we’re continuing to evolve our understanding and approaches of altruism—so to label the one approach/one attempt of FTX as representative of all “altruists” is potentially limiting the entire space. They could have called it just FTX or “Consequential” (similar to the Uber series being called “Superpumped” and Wework show called “wecrashed”) the fact that altruists is in the name suggests they will center that in the storyline.
To be fair, all groups go through this, and I’m not sure what direct interventions can be done at this point barring legal action...which typically has strong negative connotations associated with it.
I brought this up a few months ago in a larger comment on optics and it did not go over well. Glad to see people upvoting this (your phrasing of the issue is much better than mine!).
Another element I’ve thought of since, is that we’re continuing to evolve our understanding and approaches of altruism—so to label the one approach/one attempt of FTX as representative of all “altruists” is potentially limiting the entire space. They could have called it just FTX or “Consequential” (similar to the Uber series being called “Superpumped” and Wework show called “wecrashed”) the fact that altruists is in the name suggests they will center that in the storyline.
To be fair, all groups go through this, and I’m not sure what direct interventions can be done at this point barring legal action...which typically has strong negative connotations associated with it.