I’m concerned about too much EA meta conversation — about worlds where most of EA dialogue is talking about EAs talking about EAs (lots of social reality and not enough object-level).
These sorts of convos are often very far removed from {concrete things that help the world}, and I worry about them taking away attention from more important ones.
I think it’s probably much better (for the world) for conversations to stay focused on the real world, object-level claims and arguments.
Part of me wants to flesh this thought out properly soon. But even this conversation is meta! And I’m trying to encourage/ focus more on object-level ideas. So do I write it? I’m not sure.
This relates to a caveat in my recent post:
I’m concerned about too much EA meta conversation — about worlds where most of EA dialogue is talking about EAs talking about EAs (lots of social reality and not enough object-level).
These sorts of convos are often very far removed from {concrete things that help the world}, and I worry about them taking away attention from more important ones.
I think it’s probably much better (for the world) for conversations to stay focused on the real world, object-level claims and arguments.
Part of me wants to flesh this thought out properly soon. But even this conversation is meta! And I’m trying to encourage/ focus more on object-level ideas. So do I write it? I’m not sure.