It could be interesting to learn what proportion of EAs date/form long-term relationships with other EAs vs with non-EAs, and whether there’s a notable difference between those cases in how successful the dating/relationships are
But I’d guess that that information would be much less valuable than a lot of other information we could spend our resources gaining, and I’d also worry about becoming/appearing navel-gazing or cult-like
I actually think getting that sort of information might be quite useful. I’m not saying we should have an independent research project on “Romantic relationships in EA” but perhaps the next EA survey could throw a few questions in regarding how being an EA has impacted on social/romantic life. We don’t want to completely neglect the how “nice” it is to be part of the EA community angle. Making progress on this could help us grow the community in the long-run.
Yeah, I’d feel more positive about some questions on this as part of a larger survey than about an independent research project just on this. And the question of how being an EA has impacted people’s social/romantic lives seems perhaps more important and less weird/weird-seeming than the specific questions of whether EAs date other EAs vs non-EAs and how that affects their experiences.
(But these are just my quick, largely-intuition-based two cents.)
Marisa’s answer seems great to me.
Two small things I’ll add:
Here’s a hilarious article on “marrying to give”, written as a parody of 80,000 Hours
It could be interesting to learn what proportion of EAs date/form long-term relationships with other EAs vs with non-EAs, and whether there’s a notable difference between those cases in how successful the dating/relationships are
But I’d guess that that information would be much less valuable than a lot of other information we could spend our resources gaining, and I’d also worry about becoming/appearing navel-gazing or cult-like
Funny article!
I actually think getting that sort of information might be quite useful. I’m not saying we should have an independent research project on “Romantic relationships in EA” but perhaps the next EA survey could throw a few questions in regarding how being an EA has impacted on social/romantic life. We don’t want to completely neglect the how “nice” it is to be part of the EA community angle. Making progress on this could help us grow the community in the long-run.
Yeah, I’d feel more positive about some questions on this as part of a larger survey than about an independent research project just on this. And the question of how being an EA has impacted people’s social/romantic lives seems perhaps more important and less weird/weird-seeming than the specific questions of whether EAs date other EAs vs non-EAs and how that affects their experiences.
(But these are just my quick, largely-intuition-based two cents.)
I agree!