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What about the parts of EA that isn’t Peter Singer and classical GiveWell-style EA? If those parts of EA were somewhat responsible, would it be reasonable to call that EA as well?
I don’t think the analogy is helpful. Naomi Novik presumably does not claim to emphasize the importance of understanding tail risks. Naomi presumably didn’t meet Caroline and encourage her to earn a lot of money so she can donate to fantasy authors, nor did Caroline say “I’m earning all of this money so I can fund Naomi Novik’s fantasy writing”. Naomi Novik did not have Caroline on her website as a success story of “this is why you should earn money to buy fantasy books or support other fantasy writers”. Naomi didn’t have a “Fantasy writer’s fund” with the FTX brand on it.
I think it’s reasonable to preach patience if you think people are jumping too quickly to blame themselves. I think it’s reasonable to think that EA is actually less responsible than the current state of discourse on the forum. And I’m not making a claim about the extent EA is in fact responsible for the events. But the analogy as written is pretty poor, and doesn’t really make a good case for saying EA has zero responsibility here (emphasis added):