It’s great to see a principled and unapologetic criticism of a common EA policy preference.
It would be surprising if all of one’s policy preferences before becoming EA ended up still being net good after incorporating EA-associated ideas in moral philosophy like sentientism and longtermism. You could say that becoming EA should make us “rethink” our “priorities” :P
For those interested in more evaluation of the knock-on effects of climate change, I highly recommend Brian Tomasik’s essays on evaluating the net impact of climate change on wild animal suffering.
It’s great to see a principled and unapologetic criticism of a common EA policy preference.
It would be surprising if all of one’s policy preferences before becoming EA ended up still being net good after incorporating EA-associated ideas in moral philosophy like sentientism and longtermism. You could say that becoming EA should make us “rethink” our “priorities” :P
For those interested in more evaluation of the knock-on effects of climate change, I highly recommend Brian Tomasik’s essays on evaluating the net impact of climate change on wild animal suffering.
Thanks, Ariel!