EA - Some updates to my thinking in light of the FTX collapse by Owen Cotton Barratt [Link Post] by Nathan Young

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Some updates to my thinking in light of the FTX collapse by Owen Cotton Barratt [Link Post], published by Nathan Young on March 29, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Some quick notesOwen Cotton Barratt has written a post of reflections about FTXHe didn’t want to post themThese seem obviously valuable for people to read, if they wishPersonally I don’t think revelations about Owen’s actions much affect my opinion of the value of the interesting things he might say about FTXBut neither do interesting things he has to say about FTX affect his actions (more below)So this is a link post. This is my choice, with his permission.On balance I think it's better to link to the post, if the consensus is that I should post the whole post (it's quite long) I willEqually there is a discussion to be had about whether Owen’s content should be on the forum or indeed further discussion of the whole situation, feel free to have that discussion here. The mod team has suggested (and I cautiously endorse) having a dedicated comment thread on this post for meta-discussion about Owen, details below.I think this could be seen as soft rehabilitation. I don’t endorse thatPersonally I think there is at least one more large discussion necessary about Owen’s actions. If the manner this piece was posted was used to avoid that, I’d be upsetYou may disagree with either my or the moderation team’s choices here. I am happy to discuss the point - perhaps I’m wrongAs elsewhere I think it may be helpful to split up thoughts and feelings, personally I think my feelings do not automatically translate into a need for action. Feelings are important, but they are only part of good arguments.[A note from the moderation team] We realize that some people might want to discuss how to process this post in light of Owen's recent statement and apology. But we also want to give space to object-level discussion of the contents of the post, and separate those out somewhat. So we ask that you avoid commenting on Owen's recent apology anywhere but in this thread. New top-level comments (and responses to them) should focus on the contents of the post; if they don't, we'll move them to said thread.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.