WSJ Op-Ed: ‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither—I didn’t see any discussion of this low effort but scathing review of EA. I wonder if people feel we should write a response?
The article itself is bad-faith, bordering on the stupidest critique I have read on EA thus far, but I feel like WSJ op-ed is pretty important, and if SBF signed off on a response they would most likely publish it.
Couldn’t read the article so I can’t say. EA does have some red flags it needs to deal with (just like literally any movement in existence) so it’s easy to pick on. How red flags are handled is what’s important, and based on the amount of posts I’ve seen saying that the movement struggles to address logitimate criticisms internally, it needs a shift to sincerely move forward. And I say that because some of the first things mentioned were things I personally had concerns about. I will say, if it’s low-effort then the best response might be no response. It’s an op-ed, it’s someone’s big fat opinion. If EA was somehow perfect beyond the limits of reality someone would still write a low-effort op-ed.
WSJ Op-Ed: ‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither—I didn’t see any discussion of this low effort but scathing review of EA. I wonder if people feel we should write a response?
The article itself is bad-faith, bordering on the stupidest critique I have read on EA thus far, but I feel like WSJ op-ed is pretty important, and if SBF signed off on a response they would most likely publish it.
Couldn’t read the article so I can’t say. EA does have some red flags it needs to deal with (just like literally any movement in existence) so it’s easy to pick on. How red flags are handled is what’s important, and based on the amount of posts I’ve seen saying that the movement struggles to address logitimate criticisms internally, it needs a shift to sincerely move forward. And I say that because some of the first things mentioned were things I personally had concerns about.
I will say, if it’s low-effort then the best response might be no response. It’s an op-ed, it’s someone’s big fat opinion. If EA was somehow perfect beyond the limits of reality someone would still write a low-effort op-ed.