This comment is pretty disheartening to see. A lot of this is inaccurate, but I’ll only reply to a few key things as I’m not sure this will be the healthiest or best use of my time:
I’m not sure why you think Social Change Lab is “just a website”. We’re an org with 3 employees (2 of which started today hence not on the website yet) but we’re also a registered non-profit in the UK via Companies house.
The point about me not being an EA is particularly bizarre, given that I literally just wrote a piece on my personal blog defending EA.
Producing extremely long articles...yes that is culmination of various research projects! We also have short pieces, and pretty clear summaries. Would you rather we take donations and not do any work? Other orgs produce long reports, so not sure why ours are so much worse!
The other claims are mainly ad-hominems about my supposed bad intentions, so I’ll leave those be. For those that know me, or have interacted with me in various ways, I’m sure it’s pretty clear that “earning great status and power” etc is not my main goal.
FWIW there’s a reason I left doing social movement organising—it’s because I was sceptical of it’s effectiveness! If I was so sold it was the right thing to do, I would be trying to get funding for that, rather than funding for research to figure out if it’s actually overall helpful or harmful.
*sigh*
This comment is pretty disheartening to see. A lot of this is inaccurate, but I’ll only reply to a few key things as I’m not sure this will be the healthiest or best use of my time:
I’m not sure why you think Social Change Lab is “just a website”. We’re an org with 3 employees (2 of which started today hence not on the website yet) but we’re also a registered non-profit in the UK via Companies house.
The point about me not being an EA is particularly bizarre, given that I literally just wrote a piece on my personal blog defending EA.
Producing extremely long articles...yes that is culmination of various research projects! We also have short pieces, and pretty clear summaries. Would you rather we take donations and not do any work? Other orgs produce long reports, so not sure why ours are so much worse!
The other claims are mainly ad-hominems about my supposed bad intentions, so I’ll leave those be. For those that know me, or have interacted with me in various ways, I’m sure it’s pretty clear that “earning great status and power” etc is not my main goal.
FWIW there’s a reason I left doing social movement organising—it’s because I was sceptical of it’s effectiveness! If I was so sold it was the right thing to do, I would be trying to get funding for that, rather than funding for research to figure out if it’s actually overall helpful or harmful.