I would quite strongly recommend against lying and also strongly would recommend against anything that could give you the death penalty! I realize EAs are kind of intense, but that seems far over the line. Please do not engage inactivities that could directly put yourself in danger.
It sounds like you’re in a challenging situation. I could definitely empathize with that and for others in similar situations.
One thing to consider may be that if creating an EA group may come with so many local disadvantages, it may mean that even once you do create it, it may continue to have severe limits to growth, limiting its potential anyway.
I think I’d encourage you to feel fine not contributing anything useful right away, but instead focus efforts on your long-term efforts. Learning a lot and doing work to secure a great career can go a long way, though it will of course take a while and can be frustrating for that reason. I know 80,000 Hours has written a lot about topics related to this.
Also, I’m not sure if you used a pseudonym here, but I hope you did. I’d suggest being pretty wary of posting some details like that online, I would imagine they could easily be found later on if you did anything along those lines.
I would quite strongly recommend against lying and also strongly would recommend against anything that could give you the death penalty! I realize EAs are kind of intense, but that seems far over the line. Please do not engage inactivities that could directly put yourself in danger.
It sounds like you’re in a challenging situation. I could definitely empathize with that and for others in similar situations.
One thing to consider may be that if creating an EA group may come with so many local disadvantages, it may mean that even once you do create it, it may continue to have severe limits to growth, limiting its potential anyway.
I think I’d encourage you to feel fine not contributing anything useful right away, but instead focus efforts on your long-term efforts. Learning a lot and doing work to secure a great career can go a long way, though it will of course take a while and can be frustrating for that reason. I know 80,000 Hours has written a lot about topics related to this.
Also, I’m not sure if you used a pseudonym here, but I hope you did. I’d suggest being pretty wary of posting some details like that online, I would imagine they could easily be found later on if you did anything along those lines.
As an addendum, if you did not use a pseudonym, please ask one of the moderators or admins to change your name on this forum and/or delete this post.