Do you think that we ought to take money in the EA ecosystem and pay it back to people [potentially] defrauded by FTX, or should we put this money into the charities for which it was intended?
I say give the money back (at the EA-community level, not the individual org/project level), and let the theft victim decide if they want to redonate their money to charity. It’s their money, after all!
(If the thing that happened is basically theft, and if they don’t get their money back by some other channel. I’d be interested to hear counter-arguments on either of those fronts, or on the general policy I’m suggesting.)
Public discussions sound great too, but we can invite a public conversation without using that as a reason to put off making decisions about this.
(I do think we should think hard about the relevant factors here, before acting. There are a ton of things I expect to be confusing here; maybe the whole idea just doesn’t make sense because of some subtlety about comparing the counterfactuals. But I’m guessing a large public conversation wouldn’t give us much additional insight here, and would be useful for reasons other than improving the quality of our decision.)
I say give the money back (at the EA-community level, not the individual org/project level), and let the theft victim decide if they want to redonate their money to charity. It’s their money, after all!
(If the thing that happened is basically theft, and if they don’t get their money back by some other channel. I’d be interested to hear counter-arguments on either of those fronts, or on the general policy I’m suggesting.)
Public discussions sound great too, but we can invite a public conversation without using that as a reason to put off making decisions about this.
(I do think we should think hard about the relevant factors here, before acting. There are a ton of things I expect to be confusing here; maybe the whole idea just doesn’t make sense because of some subtlety about comparing the counterfactuals. But I’m guessing a large public conversation wouldn’t give us much additional insight here, and would be useful for reasons other than improving the quality of our decision.)