On the object-level question for a decision process for supporting/opposing particular candidates/parties, I think we should look for fairly strong consensus in favour of doing so for a given decision, if it’s expected to reflect back on the EA community generally. If
<X% more EAs (weighted by engagement or selecting only among engaged EAs, and maybe weighted/selecting based on knowledge of the relevant issues and discussion) are in favour of it than are against getting involved, or
at least Y% of EAs (weighted again) are against getting involved,
then we should not get involved.
I’d guess X% > 20% and 10% < Y% < 30%.
If you think getting involved is wasteful, i.e. worse than the counterfactual use of those resources, you should vote against getting involved.
On the object-level question for a decision process for supporting/opposing particular candidates/parties, I think we should look for fairly strong consensus in favour of doing so for a given decision, if it’s expected to reflect back on the EA community generally. If
<X% more EAs (weighted by engagement or selecting only among engaged EAs, and maybe weighted/selecting based on knowledge of the relevant issues and discussion) are in favour of it than are against getting involved, or
at least Y% of EAs (weighted again) are against getting involved,
then we should not get involved.
I’d guess X% > 20% and 10% < Y% < 30%.
If you think getting involved is wasteful, i.e. worse than the counterfactual use of those resources, you should vote against getting involved.