Married 35 year old Texan with 5 young children. USMA ’09, US Army w/ 1 Afghanistan deployment, licensed Realtor, middle manager setting rents at an institutional landlord.
I identify as a Republican, rationalist, fusionist conservative, Austrian, classical liberal, Evangelical Christian, and neoconservative.
I meet the broad definition of an effective altruist (do the max good), but am more precisely an EA skeptic, particularly wary of the EA’s technocratic inclinations and overconfidence in empiricism. I’m here for good faith persuasion as to why I’m wrong!
Favorite concept is Auftragstaktik. Favorite thinker is Hayek.
While anecdote is not data, this is my first post in this forum, as someone who does not self identify as EA (though my friend assures me my views are not exclusive of being EA) and has many problems with much of the EA culture.
But I find the criticism of EA based on SBF incredibly annoying and shallow. Like giving up vegetarianism because of Hitler.
So, I didn’t evaporate, for what it’s worth!