Thank you! That’s very interesting r.e. Gates; that wasn’t my impression at all but to be honest I may very well be living in a bubble of my own making, and I’m sure I’ve missed plenty of criticism. That said, I think I might still suggest that there’s two different kinds of criticism here: EA gets quite a bit of high-status criticism from fairly mainstream sources (academics, magazines, etc.); if Bill Gates’s criticism comes more from conspiracy loons then I would suggest it’s probably less damaging, even if it’s more voluminous. (I think both have got a lot of flak from those development orgs who were quite enjoying being complacent about whether they were actually being successful or not.)
And yes I completely agree r.e. longtermism & PR! I wrote something quite similar a couple of months ago. It seems to me that longtermism has an obvious open goal here and yet hasn’t (yet) taken it.
Thank you! That’s very interesting r.e. Gates; that wasn’t my impression at all but to be honest I may very well be living in a bubble of my own making, and I’m sure I’ve missed plenty of criticism. That said, I think I might still suggest that there’s two different kinds of criticism here: EA gets quite a bit of high-status criticism from fairly mainstream sources (academics, magazines, etc.); if Bill Gates’s criticism comes more from conspiracy loons then I would suggest it’s probably less damaging, even if it’s more voluminous. (I think both have got a lot of flak from those development orgs who were quite enjoying being complacent about whether they were actually being successful or not.)
And yes I completely agree r.e. longtermism & PR! I wrote something quite similar a couple of months ago. It seems to me that longtermism has an obvious open goal here and yet hasn’t (yet) taken it.