IMO, the series of crises in the EA movement is at partly related to the fact that the EA movement is obviously having issues.
With that stated, I think EA probably can’t do well for a very basic reason: The idea that you can improve or harm society’s preferences, because there are no preferences of society, since it doesn’t exist. Thus I think EA is trying to do an impossible goal.
This is explored in the post below on Thatcher’s Axiom:
IMO, the series of crises in the EA movement is at partly related to the fact that the EA movement is obviously having issues.
With that stated, I think EA probably can’t do well for a very basic reason: The idea that you can improve or harm society’s preferences, because there are no preferences of society, since it doesn’t exist. Thus I think EA is trying to do an impossible goal.
This is explored in the post below on Thatcher’s Axiom:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YYuB8w4nrfWmLzNob/thatcher-s-axiom
IMO, I think the rationality project/LW is handling these crises far better than EA is doing.
I’m not really sure if they’re separable at this point? There’s so much overlap and cross-posting, it seems like they have the same blood supply.