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And what if those are Effectively all cases?

You have altogether too much fun, David

For what it's worth & from what I can tell, EA focus among the idea-producing class has made positive shifts: Move More Money → Provide Useful Labor (and now, slowly) → Generate Ideas. I think it suffers from trying (successfully) to make early thinking very sticky

A criticism I would have is that in service of being "big tent," EA hasn't really walked back some of its early ideas firmly enough, so there's quite a lot of probably-bad meme-spreading (e.g. "you are the global 1%" is an effective meme, but easily anchors people to a bad lens)

What claims do you think we should explicitly walk back?

I don't know about "claims." "You are the global 1%" is a good example, IMO — it is TRUE, but if you make it too salient all the time the result is a bunch of people who wind up thinking the problem is that they have too much.

It's tricky to walk back true claims right. ;) Hence just the change in what we focus on writing about.

I'm also more pro redistribution message. I want people to revere impartial concern for welfare of all beings. Redistribution msg helps carry that. Also nearby worlds might involve moral obligation to give away lots of money for richest people. It's useful philosophical point.