Sorry Richard, I meant no disrepsect. And I appreciate you acknowledging that there are leftsist EAs.
Without wanting to do guilt-by-association, I simply wanted to express that there would have been a clear benefit to having a more left-wing EA, since leftists are more critical of cryptocurrencies etc. There were many EAs who did the right thing warning about cryptocurrency/SBF, but they were smaller in number, and overlooked by the community. So apologies I went too far maligning all libertarians/non-leftists.
Well Rich, some of us here are leftists.
So of course, no, not all of us EAs dismiss these critiques, because a few us champion these critiques ourselves.
Ouch, this hurt. But I shall recover 😢. But suffice to say, libertarian EAs shouldn’t assume these critiques are bad either.
I will point out that to-date, all the major EA scandals have been caused by libertarians (cryptocurrency, race science, sexual abuse in polyarmorous community), and I do think the more reckless libertarians in EA have done more to hurt this movement than anyone else.
If EA became more left-wing, in my leftist opinion, it would be more “EA”, if you get what I mean.