“How can we deny that this is what EA stands for? “
Because most/​all leaders would disavow it, including Nick Beckstead, who I imagine wrote the founding document you mean-indeed he’s already disavowed it-and we don’t personally control Elon, whether or not he considers himself EA? And also, EAs, including some quite aggressively un-PC ones like Scott Alexander and Matthew Adelstein/​Bentham’s Bulldog have been pushing back strongly against the aid cuts/​the America First agenda behind them?
Having said that, it definitely reduced my opinion of Will MacAskill, or at least his political judgment, that he tried to help SBF get in on Elon’s twitter purchase, since I think Elon’s fascist leanings were pretty obvious even at that point. And I agree we can ask whether EA ideas influence Musk in a bad direction, whether or not EAs themselves approve of the direction he is going in.
“How can we deny that this is what EA stands for? “
Because most/​all leaders would disavow it, including Nick Beckstead, who I imagine wrote the founding document you mean-indeed he’s already disavowed it-and we don’t personally control Elon, whether or not he considers himself EA? And also, EAs, including some quite aggressively un-PC ones like Scott Alexander and Matthew Adelstein/​Bentham’s Bulldog have been pushing back strongly against the aid cuts/​the America First agenda behind them?
Having said that, it definitely reduced my opinion of Will MacAskill, or at least his political judgment, that he tried to help SBF get in on Elon’s twitter purchase, since I think Elon’s fascist leanings were pretty obvious even at that point. And I agree we can ask whether EA ideas influence Musk in a bad direction, whether or not EAs themselves approve of the direction he is going in.