The irony in Wenar’s piece is: In all he does, he just outs himself as… an EA himself :-). He clearly thinks its important to think through net impact and to do the things that do have great overall impact. Sad he caricatures the existing EA ecosystem in such an uncompelling and disrespectful way.
Fully agree with your take of him being “absurdly” unconvincing here. I guess nothing is too blatant to be printed in this world, as long as the writer makes bold & enraging enough claims on a popular scapegoat and has a Prof title from a famous uni.
I can only imagine (or hope), the traction the article got, which you mention (though I have not seen it myself), being mainly limited to usual suspects for whom EA anyway, quasi by definition, is simply all stupid, if not outright evil.
The irony in Wenar’s piece is: In all he does, he just outs himself as… an EA himself :-). He clearly thinks its important to think through net impact and to do the things that do have great overall impact. Sad he caricatures the existing EA ecosystem in such an uncompelling and disrespectful way.
Fully agree with your take of him being “absurdly” unconvincing here. I guess nothing is too blatant to be printed in this world, as long as the writer makes bold & enraging enough claims on a popular scapegoat and has a Prof title from a famous uni.
I can only imagine (or hope), the traction the article got, which you mention (though I have not seen it myself), being mainly limited to usual suspects for whom EA anyway, quasi by definition, is simply all stupid, if not outright evil.