Sureāthatās a good thing to clarify. When I say āopposed to,ā I mean that it seems like the things he presently cares about donāt seem connected to a cause-neutral welfare-maximizing perspective (though I canāt say I know what his motivations are, so perhaps that is what heās aiming for).
Most notably, his PAC explicitly supports an āAmerica First immigration policy,ā which seems difficult to square with his espoused libertarianism and his complaints about technological slowdown in addition to being directly opposed to work from Open Phil and others. I donāt understand exactly what his aims are at this point, but it feels like heās far away enough from the EA baseline that I wouldnāt want to assume a motivation of ādo the most good in a cause-neutral wayā anymore.
Sureāthatās a good thing to clarify. When I say āopposed to,ā I mean that it seems like the things he presently cares about donāt seem connected to a cause-neutral welfare-maximizing perspective (though I canāt say I know what his motivations are, so perhaps that is what heās aiming for).
Most notably, his PAC explicitly supports an āAmerica First immigration policy,ā which seems difficult to square with his espoused libertarianism and his complaints about technological slowdown in addition to being directly opposed to work from Open Phil and others. I donāt understand exactly what his aims are at this point, but it feels like heās far away enough from the EA baseline that I wouldnāt want to assume a motivation of ādo the most good in a cause-neutral wayā anymore.