but I don’t think it’s an appropriate discussion topic for the EA Forum.
This sentence is what moved this comment from neutral-to-disagree to strong-disagree to me. I think it’s reasonable for folks to disagree about whether “most effective intervention within pre-specified constraints” is an EA-apt question. For various reasons, I strongly feel that we shouldn’t censure folks that try to do that thing (within reason).
If you are going to do the “well actually even the best interventions in this class aren’t effective enough to be counterfactually worthwhile” thing, I think it’s critical to do that in a tactful and constructive way, which this isn’t.
I disagree with partner!Will’s implication that Michael’s comment is unconstructive. I think it is very blunt, but that seems fine to me. I have not-settled opinions about the content of Michael’s comment.
This sentence is what moved this comment from neutral-to-disagree to strong-disagree to me. I think it’s reasonable for folks to disagree about whether “most effective intervention within pre-specified constraints” is an EA-apt question. For various reasons, I strongly feel that we shouldn’t censure folks that try to do that thing (within reason).
If you are going to do the “well actually even the best interventions in this class aren’t effective enough to be counterfactually worthwhile” thing, I think it’s critical to do that in a tactful and constructive way, which this isn’t.
I disagree with partner!Will’s implication that Michael’s comment is unconstructive. I think it is very blunt, but that seems fine to me. I have not-settled opinions about the content of Michael’s comment.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s super mean or anything. Hence why I didn’t actually downvote Michael’s comment, just disagreevoted.