Completely agree, and I’ll second the impression that EA marketers primarily activate and recruit other EA marketers.
Another way to frame this dynamic -
If someone is making the claim to you that these problems are the overwhelmingly most important things to do with your life, then why aren’t they working on them? In a way it almost feels self-defeating. The people who best activated and motivated me to work directly on hard problems were people who themselves were working on them.
This is all anecdotal, of course, but I do think we need an epistemically healthier model of community building, for these and other reasons.
Completely agree, and I’ll second the impression that EA marketers primarily activate and recruit other EA marketers.
Another way to frame this dynamic -
If someone is making the claim to you that these problems are the overwhelmingly most important things to do with your life, then why aren’t they working on them? In a way it almost feels self-defeating. The people who best activated and motivated me to work directly on hard problems were people who themselves were working on them.
This is all anecdotal, of course, but I do think we need an epistemically healthier model of community building, for these and other reasons.