Taking ethics seriously, and enjoying the process — EA Forum
Here’s a talk I gave at an EA university group organizers’ retreat recently, which I've been strongly encouraged to share on the forum. I'd like to m…
Rohin Shah 9mo * 50 9 4 2 I don’t know how much the FTX collapse is responsible for our current culture. They did cause unbelievable damage, acting extremely unethically and unilaterally and recklessly in destructive ways. But they did have this world-scale ambition, and urgency, and proclivity to actually make things happen in the world, that I think central EA orgs and the broader EA community sorely lack in light of the problems we’re hoping to solve. But this is exactly why I don't want to encourage heroic responsibility (despite the fact that I often take on that mindset myself). Empirica
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