Executive summary: The author expresses appreciation for the EA movement but also disillusionment due to systemic issues, leading them to distance themselves from EA while still focusing on their specific cause area and research field.
Key points:
The author experienced degrading things and burnout due to EA, despite initial positive experiences and impact.
Specific challenges included occasional lack of diversity and inclusion, over-emphasis on prestige and funding, and unhealthy professional-social dynamics.
The author felt pressure to fit a certain EA mold and that empathy was sometimes deprioritized in favor of logic and consequentialism.
Toxic applications of utilitarianism were observed, such as ignoring minority rights, manipulating others, and pursuing short-term gains.
The author has distanced themselves from EA for now to focus on the underlying values in an adjacent way, while hoping the movement grows to be more accommodating.
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Executive summary: The author expresses appreciation for the EA movement but also disillusionment due to systemic issues, leading them to distance themselves from EA while still focusing on their specific cause area and research field.
Key points:
The author experienced degrading things and burnout due to EA, despite initial positive experiences and impact.
Specific challenges included occasional lack of diversity and inclusion, over-emphasis on prestige and funding, and unhealthy professional-social dynamics.
The author felt pressure to fit a certain EA mold and that empathy was sometimes deprioritized in favor of logic and consequentialism.
Toxic applications of utilitarianism were observed, such as ignoring minority rights, manipulating others, and pursuing short-term gains.
The author has distanced themselves from EA for now to focus on the underlying values in an adjacent way, while hoping the movement grows to be more accommodating.
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