Thanks! This all sounds right. “CCC has interesting heresies”—was there stuff other than MCB and global poverty? It’s an interesting parallel to EA—that they have interesting heresies, but are ultimately wrong about some key assumptions (that there’s room for more funding/that MCB is sufficient to stop all climate change, respectively. And they both have a fetish for working within systems rather than trying to change them at all.)
Kinda a shame that leftists are mostlynot coming to the “how can we change systems that will undo any progress we make” thing with an effectiveness mindset, though at least these people are.
Thanks! This all sounds right. “CCC has interesting heresies”—was there stuff other than MCB and global poverty? It’s an interesting parallel to EA—that they have interesting heresies, but are ultimately wrong about some key assumptions (that there’s room for more funding/that MCB is sufficient to stop all climate change, respectively. And they both have a fetish for working within systems rather than trying to change them at all.)
Kinda a shame that leftists are mostly not coming to the “how can we change systems that will undo any progress we make” thing with an effectiveness mindset, though at least these people are.