A quick note about the use of “bad faith criticisms” — I don’t think it’s the case that every argument against “taking money from internet billionaires” is bad faith, where bad faith is defined as falsely presenting one’s motives, consciously using poor evidence or reasoning, or some other intentional duplicitousness.
It seems perfectly possible for one to coherently and in good faith argue that EA should not take money from billionaires. Perhaps in practice you find such high-quality good faith takes lacking, but in any case I think it’s important not to categorically dismiss them as bad faith.
A quick note about the use of “bad faith criticisms” — I don’t think it’s the case that every argument against “taking money from internet billionaires” is bad faith, where bad faith is defined as falsely presenting one’s motives, consciously using poor evidence or reasoning, or some other intentional duplicitousness.
It seems perfectly possible for one to coherently and in good faith argue that EA should not take money from billionaires. Perhaps in practice you find such high-quality good faith takes lacking, but in any case I think it’s important not to categorically dismiss them as bad faith.
Agreed. I wasn’t clear in the original post but I particularly had in mind this one attack ad, which is intellectually bad faith.