(For what it’s worth, the post made it not at all clear to me that we were talking about a nontrivial amount of funding. I read it as just you thinking a bit through your personal finance allocation. The topic of divesting and impact investing has been analyzed a bunch on LessWrong and the EA Forum, and my current position is mostly that these kinds of differences in investment don’t really make much of a difference in total funding allocation, so it doesn’t seem worth optimizing much, besides just optimizing for returns and then taking those returns and optimizing those fully for philanthropic impact.)
This seems to be the common rationalist position, but it does seem to be at odds with:
The common rationalist position to vote on UDT grounds.
The common rationalist position to eschew contextualizing because it ruins the commons.
I don’t see much difference between voting because you want others to also vote the same way, or choosing stocks because you want others to choose stocks the same way.
I also think it’s pretty orthogonal to talk about telling the truth for long term gains in culture, and only giving money to companies with your values for long term gains in culture.
(For what it’s worth, the post made it not at all clear to me that we were talking about a nontrivial amount of funding. I read it as just you thinking a bit through your personal finance allocation. The topic of divesting and impact investing has been analyzed a bunch on LessWrong and the EA Forum, and my current position is mostly that these kinds of differences in investment don’t really make much of a difference in total funding allocation, so it doesn’t seem worth optimizing much, besides just optimizing for returns and then taking those returns and optimizing those fully for philanthropic impact.)
This seems to be the common rationalist position, but it does seem to be at odds with:
The common rationalist position to vote on UDT grounds.
The common rationalist position to eschew contextualizing because it ruins the commons.
I don’t see much difference between voting because you want others to also vote the same way, or choosing stocks because you want others to choose stocks the same way.
I also think it’s pretty orthogonal to talk about telling the truth for long term gains in culture, and only giving money to companies with your values for long term gains in culture.
I don’t understand. What do you mean by contextualizing?
More here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7cAsBPGh98pGyrhz9/decoupling-vs-contextualising-norms