EA - Should companies aligned to EA be open about that? by Worried

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: Should companies aligned to EA be open about that?, published by Worried on November 10, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I own a company that's closely related to EA. We've been vocal about that relationship and actively acquanting and educating our customers about EA. Almost all of our customers and employees are non-EA's, we operate B2C and we are for-profit. I no longer think it's in the best interest of my company, and its impact and future survival odds, to have a visual relationship with EA. I do continue to believe its very good to acquaint and educate people about EA principles, but I just think it's too risky associating with it publicly now. I have already been worried about the optics of longtermism (although I'm a longtermist), flying students to conferences and having them stay in fancy hotels (although I believe that to be high EV) and everything immoral Elon Musk does in the name of longtermism, but I could deal with and defend that.However, FTX seemingly plagueing fraud to move more money to effective causes is something I know I won't be able to defend (even when that's high EV), and seems like a net-negative thing to be associated with.I realize that asking this question might be bad because it could persuade other people and companies to be silent EA's. I also think for some that might be the highest EV course of action.I'm not new to this forum, but I've chosen to post this anonymously. I look forward to reading your arguments around this question.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.