I knew EA was full of technocrats. Glad I left the movement before they started showing themselves. Oppression may be sustainable for a couple thousand years...but what about longtermism? What about human flourishing? This is just a run of the mill conservative take wrapped up in slightly fancier language. Why don’t we simply educate people and get money out of politics?
A lot of people seem to hate EA because they come convinced they know the solutions to this and that, but EA tells them those solutions don’t work and stuff they reject works.
For instance, if “neoliberal” means anything, it means kind of mixed economy with lots of liberal markets but with various regulations and welfare programs. Empirically, this seems to work better than anything else we’ve tried—by a lot! But lots of people want to reject that a priori and they hate how comfortable EAs are with doing what...works.
I knew EA was full of technocrats. Glad I left the movement before they started showing themselves. Oppression may be sustainable for a couple thousand years...but what about longtermism? What about human flourishing? This is just a run of the mill conservative take wrapped up in slightly fancier language. Why don’t we simply educate people and get money out of politics?
A lot of people seem to hate EA because they come convinced they know the solutions to this and that, but EA tells them those solutions don’t work and stuff they reject works.
For instance, if “neoliberal” means anything, it means kind of mixed economy with lots of liberal markets but with various regulations and welfare programs. Empirically, this seems to work better than anything else we’ve tried—by a lot! But lots of people want to reject that a priori and they hate how comfortable EAs are with doing what...works.