Let me put in my 2c now that the collapse of FTX is going to be mostly irrelevant to effective altruism except inasmuch as EA and longtermist foundations no longer have a bunch of incoming money from Sam Bankman Fried. People are going on and on about the “PR damage” to EA by association because a large donor turned out to be a fraud, but are failing to actually predict what the concrete consequences of such a “PR loss” are going to be. Seems to me like they’re making the typical fallacy of overestimating general public perception[1]’s relevance to an insular ingroup’s ability to accomplish goals, as well as the public’s attention span in the first place.
Let me put in my 2c now that the collapse of FTX is going to be mostly irrelevant to effective altruism except inasmuch as EA and longtermist foundations no longer have a bunch of incoming money from Sam Bankman Fried. People are going on and on about the “PR damage” to EA by association because a large donor turned out to be a fraud, but are failing to actually predict what the concrete consequences of such a “PR loss” are going to be. Seems to me like they’re making the typical fallacy of overestimating general public perception[1]’s relevance to an insular ingroup’s ability to accomplish goals, as well as the public’s attention span in the first place.
As measured by what little Rationalists read from members of the public while glued to Twitter for four hours each day.