Lots of EAs, myself included, did nontrivial actions during covid. I expect many of us will act again in once-in-a-decade news cycles that correlates strongly with expected real changes on the real world.
”Powerful people have a spat on Twitter”, while occasionally important, are usually part of the same phenomenon that other fake news cycles come from, and it’s probably more important for us to focus on the things that matter in normal reality, with some distance away from social reality.
EDIT: tbc, “fake” is meant to modify “news cycles” and not “news”, so I’m referring to fake news cycles, and not fake news cycles.
I agree. For me this was a news cycle to act on rather than pass but I I could be wrong.
I imagine we agree that most news cycles should be ignored.
An advantage of 80k not seeing itself as a traditional news org is that it doesn’t chase news cycles and make a fool of itself. I think that’s a good thing.
Lots of EAs, myself included, did nontrivial actions during covid. I expect many of us will act again in once-in-a-decade news cycles that correlates strongly with expected real changes on the real world.
”Powerful people have a spat on Twitter”, while occasionally important, are usually part of the same phenomenon that other fake news cycles come from, and it’s probably more important for us to focus on the things that matter in normal reality, with some distance away from social reality.
EDIT: tbc, “fake” is meant to modify “news cycles” and not “news”, so I’m referring to fake news cycles, and not fake news cycles.
I agree. For me this was a news cycle to act on rather than pass but I I could be wrong.
I imagine we agree that most news cycles should be ignored.
An advantage of 80k not seeing itself as a traditional news org is that it doesn’t chase news cycles and make a fool of itself. I think that’s a good thing.