Surely giving the whole prize pool to a single person is too much, and also they are only considering recent posts (and I don’t know if he’s written EA-specific ones in the relevant time period). But I agree that he seems like one of the more important critics of EA to me.
The timeline is one of the things that makes me agree with Zvi the most: there’s past excellent criticism that deserves to be rewarded, and criticism produced on a timetable dictated by the judges is much more likely to share basic EA assumptions and be fiddling with details.
The surest test of whether or not the call for criticism is real is whether or not Benquo gets 100k.
Surely giving the whole prize pool to a single person is too much, and also they are only considering recent posts (and I don’t know if he’s written EA-specific ones in the relevant time period). But I agree that he seems like one of the more important critics of EA to me.
The timeline is one of the things that makes me agree with Zvi the most: there’s past excellent criticism that deserves to be rewarded, and criticism produced on a timetable dictated by the judges is much more likely to share basic EA assumptions and be fiddling with details.
I’m kinda joking.