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.
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.