EA tends to be anti-revolution, for a variety of reasons. The recent trump appointments have had me wondering if people here have a “line” in their head. By line I mean something like, I need to drop everything and start protesting or do something fast.
Like I don’t think appointing RFK jr. to health secretary is that line for me, but I also realize I don’t have a clear “line” in my head. If trump appointed a nazi who credibly claimed they were going to commit mass scale war crimes to the sec defense, is that enough for the people here to drop their current work?
I’m definitely generally on the side of engaging in reactionary politics being worthless, and further I don’t feel like the US is about to fall apart or completely go off the rails, but it would be really interesting to see if we could teleport some EAs back in time right before the rise of hitler or pre chinese revolution etc. (while wiping their brains of the knowledge of what would come) and see if they would say stuff like “politics is the mind killer and I need to focus on xyz”
EA tends to be anti-revolution, for a variety of reasons. The recent trump appointments have had me wondering if people here have a “line” in their head. By line I mean something like, I need to drop everything and start protesting or do something fast.
Like I don’t think appointing RFK jr. to health secretary is that line for me, but I also realize I don’t have a clear “line” in my head. If trump appointed a nazi who credibly claimed they were going to commit mass scale war crimes to the sec defense, is that enough for the people here to drop their current work?
I’m definitely generally on the side of engaging in reactionary politics being worthless, and further I don’t feel like the US is about to fall apart or completely go off the rails, but it would be really interesting to see if we could teleport some EAs back in time right before the rise of hitler or pre chinese revolution etc. (while wiping their brains of the knowledge of what would come) and see if they would say stuff like “politics is the mind killer and I need to focus on xyz”