Research Assistant on the Global Health and Development team at Rethink Priorities. My opinions are my own.
Previously: Cause Prioritization Intern at Open Philanthropy; grad student at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (University of Amsterdam); volunteer analyst at SoGive; Summer Research Analyst at GiveWell.
Something I personally would like to see from this contest is rigorous and thoughtful versions of leftist critiques of EA, ideally translated as much as possible into EA-speak. For example, I find “bednets are colonialism” infuriating and hard to engage with, but things like “the reference class for rich people in western countries trying to help poor people in Africa is quite bad, so we should start with a skeptical prior here” or “isolationism may not be the good-maximizing approach, but it could be the harm-minimizing approach that we should retreat to when facing cluelessness” make more sense to me and are easier to engage with.
That’s an imaginary example—I myself am not a rigorous and thoughtful leftist critic and I’ve exaggerated the EA-speak for fun. But I hope it points at what I’d like to see!