Thanks Tessa, I strongly endorse and appreciate this comment. It’s also worth noting here that the Collinses were very recently featured in an article, which has already associated EA/longtermism with these views, and also hinted at a plan or opportunistic power grab:
[Collins] also weighed in on the stunning implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX, which represented one of the largest financial hubs for the effective-altruism movement. The Collinses, who never directly associated with the top Democratic donor Bankman-Fried, spied an opportunity in his demise.
“This means our faction (more conservative, pronatalist, long-termist-civilization-building-focused, likely to self fund) is now 100X more likely to become a real, dominant faction in the EA space,” Simone wrote in a text message on November 12.
I was worried that this could potentially represent a risk to EA and linkposted that article, though I do not believe the article itself is worthy of engagement given the above comment-I am just leaving it here for public record in case other people come across this post later.
I worry that EA is becoming overly focused on performative progressivism (in which no feelings can be hurt) and not genuine progressivism. The opportunity we cited was one for the community to re-focus on genuinely impactful issues, even if they involve less virtue signaling.
Thanks Tessa, I strongly endorse and appreciate this comment. It’s also worth noting here that the Collinses were very recently featured in an article, which has already associated EA/longtermism with these views, and also hinted at a plan or opportunistic power grab:
I was worried that this could potentially represent a risk to EA and linkposted that article, though I do not believe the article itself is worthy of engagement given the above comment-I am just leaving it here for public record in case other people come across this post later.
I worry that EA is becoming overly focused on performative progressivism (in which no feelings can be hurt) and not genuine progressivism. The opportunity we cited was one for the community to re-focus on genuinely impactful issues, even if they involve less virtue signaling.