It packs powerful claims that really need to be unpacked (“unsustainable...massive suffering”), with a backhand against the community (“actually care...claim to”) with extraordinary, vague demands (“large economic transition”), all in a single sentence.
It’s hard to be generous, since it’s so vague. If you tried to riff some “steelman” off it, you could work in almost any argument critical of capitalism or even EA in general, which isn’t a good sign.
I think a downvoters view is that:
It packs powerful claims that really need to be unpacked (“unsustainable...massive suffering”), with a backhand against the community (“actually care...claim to”) with extraordinary, vague demands (“large economic transition”), all in a single sentence.
It’s hard to be generous, since it’s so vague. If you tried to riff some “steelman” off it, you could work in almost any argument critical of capitalism or even EA in general, which isn’t a good sign.