From the looks of it, next week might be rough for people who care about Effective Altruism. As CEA acting CEO Ben West pointed out on the forum:

“Sam Bankman-Fried's trial is scheduled to start October 3, 2023, and Michael Lewis's book about FTX comes out the same day. My hope and expectation is that neither will be focused on EA …

Nonetheless, I think there's a decent chance that viewing the Forum, Twitter, or news media could become stressful for some people, and you may want to pre-emptively create a plan for engaging with that in a healthy way.

I really appreciated that comment since I didn’t know that and I’m glad I had time to mentally prepare. As someone who does outward facing voluntary community building at my workplace and in London, I feel nervous. I’ve written this piece to manage that anxiety. I actually wrote a lot of it [...]

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Outline:

(01:04) Thoughts on EA after 2022

(06:30) Why I’m still publicly going out to bat for EA

(10:46) Conclusion and some caveats

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
September 30th, 2023

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wGKGrCYNwjhhK4N69/why-i-m-still-going-out-to-bat-for-the-ea-movement-post-ftx

Linkpost URL:
https://bashingthearc.substack.com/p/why-im-still-going-out-to-bat-for

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