I’m personally happy about different EA orgs being explicitly opinionated in different directions.
For me personally it’s sometimes unclear what people mean when they use very language like “maybe, we’re not sure, we sometimes recommend, …” (I feel like it’s a culture thing).
At the same time, I think 80k got to be somewhat of a center of the community and this gives them some kind of responsibility (though if they didn’t mean to become such a center then a part of me doesn’t want to force the responsibility on them).
Oh, I agree, they should be explicit about their opinions. But like you mentioned, they are highly influential and so I’m wary about the effects of their messaging on the many people not focused on longtermism.
I’m personally happy about different EA orgs being explicitly opinionated in different directions.
For me personally it’s sometimes unclear what people mean when they use very language like “maybe, we’re not sure, we sometimes recommend, …” (I feel like it’s a culture thing).
At the same time, I think 80k got to be somewhat of a center of the community and this gives them some kind of responsibility (though if they didn’t mean to become such a center then a part of me doesn’t want to force the responsibility on them).
Oh, I agree, they should be explicit about their opinions. But like you mentioned, they are highly influential and so I’m wary about the effects of their messaging on the many people not focused on longtermism.