I saw the development of EA as a[nother] naive series of misapprehensions about how to live in what the EA adherents see as a scary world. Akin to, "let's abstract this scary world, it'll become less scary, and we can affect / control the outcomes". That's weak adolescent thinking, and bad math besides. And this was after reading MacAskill’s book, which likewise struck me as naive academia-ism; as unpragmatic as any wooly professah unable to do basic household chores, basic tasks of living with others, of simply putting one’s shoulder to the job individually and then collectively. Very little ’survival’ in the world we live in skills [and so it was an... (read more)
I saw the development of EA as a[nother] naive series of misapprehensions about how to live in what the EA adherents see as a scary world. Akin to, "let's abstract this scary world, it'll become less scary, and we can affect / control the outcomes". That's weak adolescent thinking, and bad math besides. And this was after reading MacAskill’s book, which likewise struck me as naive academia-ism; as unpragmatic as any wooly professah unable to do basic household chores, basic tasks of living with others, of simply putting one’s shoulder to the job individually and then collectively. Very little ’survival’ in the world we live in skills [and so it was an... (read more)