Are you a writer who cares about evidence, & is annoyed by the media's tendency to focus on whatever topics are new & shiny even if they're unimportant in the big scheme of things? If so, you should apply to write for Vox's new site on effective altruism: https://boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/1240850?gh_jid=1240850 …
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No doubt
@ezraklein and co would crush the most rigorous work by the best thinkers they hire to maintain their editorial line.
Especially if good EA work challenged the cause prioritizations of social justice activists.
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Idk man, I've talked to Dylan (who's going to be running the site) about his views on EA, we don't agree about everything but he's clearly not just a "using EA as a fig leaf for social justice activism" guy
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All I was asking for is some due diligence; talking directly to Dylan the line manager, as you've done, may be as good as we can hope for at the moment. We can try giving
@voxdotcom the benefit of the doubt here, nauseating though it feels to say so.
End of conversation
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... Which it quite likely would. Optimal policy prescriptions are often quite counter-intuitive to idealistic charity approaches, because all the work is done by second order effects!
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That's incredibly smart. Instead of trying to common grounds with powerful institutions, insist that if they're going to give you some influence, you have to use it to harp on your differences with them.
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