I am a researcher at Rethink Priorities’ Worldview Investigations Team. I also do work for Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute. Previously I was a research analyst at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. I took the role after completing the MPhil in Economics at Oxford University. Before that, I studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.
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Thank you for your comment Kuhanj. I share your belief that the EA movement would benefit from the type of suggestions you outlined on your quick take. I particularly valued seeing more discussions on heuristics, for they are often as limited as they are useful!
Regarding your ‘Being slow to re-orient’ suggestion, an important nuance comes to mind: movements can equally falter by pivoting too rapidly. When a community glimpses promise in a new X direction, there’s a risk of hastily redirecting significant resources, infrastructure, and attention toward it prematurely. The wisdom accumulated through longer reflection and careful evidence collection often contains (at least some) genuine insight, and we should be cautious about abandoning established priorities to chase every emerging “crucial consideration” that surfaces.
As ever, the challenge lies in finding that delicate balance between responsiveness and steadfastness — being neither calcified in thinking nor swept away by every new intellectual current.