I am not being asked to do something because it is moral. I am being asked to do something because it is signaling. Evan is primarily telling me I’m obligated to do PR-control for EA, but that is something I do not actually care that much about and do not believe I am obligated to do, and that’s why I strong-downvoted the post.
Seems like a pretty blatant misrepresentation of what I wrote. In justifying why I think you have an obligation to condemn fraud in the service of effective altruism, I say:
Assuming FTX’s business was in fact fraudulent, I think that we—as people who unknowingly benefitted from it and whose work for the world was potentially used to whitewash it—have an obligation to condemn it in no uncertain terms.
That’s pretty clearly a moral argument and not about PR at all.
Seems like a pretty blatant misrepresentation of what I wrote. In justifying why I think you have an obligation to condemn fraud in the service of effective altruism, I say:
That’s pretty clearly a moral argument and not about PR at all.
I think that’s a mistake. Retracted. Will see if I can come back to this in the next day or two and clean up what I was saying a bit more.
You make a virtue ethics moral argument at a place that’s dominated by utilitarian ethics.