I agree that mixing politics and EA is potentially bad, especially if there’s a partisan slant overall. This felt like a bad idea back when Rob Wiblin was posting to Facebook daily about how strategic efforts to stop Trump were competitive with standard EA charities. But it also feels like a bad idea to do what you’ve done in this post, as I know from your post history that you’re reliably conservative, and notice that that’s affected how I System-1-feel about what you’ve written here.
So: my gut feels the same about you pushing for these ideas as it feels about others pushing for the ideas you’re pushing against. I wish that everyone could just stop bringing politics into EA.
(I anticipate a counter to what I’ve said here along the lines of, “but he’s just trying to make EA more politically neutral”. Fair, but it’s obvious by his tone and wording that he has other motives, and that these are obvious enough to enough people that I expect this to cause many people’s guts to notice these motives and politically infect their own feelings.)
it’s obvious by his tone and wording that he has other motives, and that these are obvious enough to enough people that I expect this to cause many people’s guts to notice these motives and politically infect
How would you change this post to convey the same objections and points, but be less “infectious”?
I am prepared to take criticism into account and reword the article before it goes to the EA forum.
I agree that mixing politics and EA is potentially bad, especially if there’s a partisan slant overall. This felt like a bad idea back when Rob Wiblin was posting to Facebook daily about how strategic efforts to stop Trump were competitive with standard EA charities. But it also feels like a bad idea to do what you’ve done in this post, as I know from your post history that you’re reliably conservative, and notice that that’s affected how I System-1-feel about what you’ve written here.
So: my gut feels the same about you pushing for these ideas as it feels about others pushing for the ideas you’re pushing against. I wish that everyone could just stop bringing politics into EA.
(I anticipate a counter to what I’ve said here along the lines of, “but he’s just trying to make EA more politically neutral”. Fair, but it’s obvious by his tone and wording that he has other motives, and that these are obvious enough to enough people that I expect this to cause many people’s guts to notice these motives and politically infect their own feelings.)
How would you change this post to convey the same objections and points, but be less “infectious”?
I am prepared to take criticism into account and reword the article before it goes to the EA forum.