Not sure what to make of it, but one of 80k hrs top recommendations is Government and policy—here it seems like several top careers could need to consider what party to work for. I might agree that discussions about who to vote for might not be high priority (although I think Rob Wiblin made a really good point that in “swing districts” voting might be really high value in expectation). That said, there might be a trade-off for many people, perhaps even EA as a whole between whether to try to make those issues that are still not partisan (like AI perhaps) stay non-partisan and using our resources to galvanize a political faction around issues that are partisan.
Not sure what to make of it, but one of 80k hrs top recommendations is Government and policy—here it seems like several top careers could need to consider what party to work for. I might agree that discussions about who to vote for might not be high priority (although I think Rob Wiblin made a really good point that in “swing districts” voting might be really high value in expectation). That said, there might be a trade-off for many people, perhaps even EA as a whole between whether to try to make those issues that are still not partisan (like AI perhaps) stay non-partisan and using our resources to galvanize a political faction around issues that are partisan.