It’s interesting to tie some thoughts in his writing to EA, but based on just the evidence here, I’d object to calling him an EA.
I’d like to see that someone did significant good with their actions before calling them an EA, especially someone in a position of power.
His words, particularly on nukes, sound a lot more like prediction or speculation than advocacy to me:
If to these tremendous and awful powers is added the pitiless sub-human wickedness which we now see embodied in one of the most powerful reigning governments, who shall say that the world itself will not be wrecked, or indeed that it ought not to be wrecked? There are nightmares of the future from which a fortunate collision with some wandering star, reducing the earth to incandescent gas, might be a merciful deliverance.
It’s fun to call a famous figure an EA, but to me, identifying a risk in your writing = futurist, taking actions in pursuit of doing the most good you can = EA. I think to some doing things like calling famous figures EAs could be seen as the movement being spurious and status seeking, so I have a particular sensitivity to it that makes me want to flag this here.
It’s interesting to tie some thoughts in his writing to EA, but based on just the evidence here, I’d object to calling him an EA.
I’d like to see that someone did significant good with their actions before calling them an EA, especially someone in a position of power.
His words, particularly on nukes, sound a lot more like prediction or speculation than advocacy to me:
It’s fun to call a famous figure an EA, but to me, identifying a risk in your writing = futurist, taking actions in pursuit of doing the most good you can = EA. I think to some doing things like calling famous figures EAs could be seen as the movement being spurious and status seeking, so I have a particular sensitivity to it that makes me want to flag this here.
It was just a cheeky headline, wasn’t meant seriously
Even so, I also think “Winston Churchill, Futurist” makes more sense and better describes the content of your post.
Makes sense; I think it’s nice for that to now be explicit.