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I’m curious what EA projects are considered “high status”. I have no idea, and I don’t believe that all your other readers do either.
Totally agree, and I am concerned that small things like that are a indicator of larger problems in the movement. Specifically, I think there’s way too much status stuff going on, and it’s incredibly easy to goodheart. Infact, 3 easy steps to status signalling in EA: (1) Hang around EA city hub (2) Repeat all the busswords you hear (3) Namedrop and associate with “Cool” ppl/orgs
To be honest, I’m horrified by how easy (and effective) it appears.
This is going to sound self-serving, but I would prefer if your fake name for EA orgs don’t sound very much like a specific organization. The exception is if you’re specifically criticizing Rethink Priorities[1], in which case I would prefer if you state your criticism more explicitly.
(Disclosure: I work at Rethink Priorities)
Which will be mildly surprising to me, since I’m the only RP employee who regularly lives in Berkeley, works from Berkeley offices etc.
I also found this curious. The original post did, at least, preface the reference to “MeThinks Priorities” with
But the reference to “MeThinks Priorities” didn’t seem to add anything to the post, and it would have been fine to just say “Alice, a manager at an EA org...”
This table is a valuable resource for people wanting to come up with imaginary EA org names.
This is one reason I haven’t wanted to live in Berkeley. Whenever I visited (which was very frequently at one point) it was pretty exhausting to have so many people running around trying to figure out and chase which things were “cool” (far from everyone in Berkeley was like this, but too many seemed to be).
Outside Berkeley I notice it much less. I still interact frequently online with a lot of people who live in Berkeley, and for me this is much more pleasant. It’s a shame, because there are lots of benefits of talking to people in person. But for me they don’t seem worth the costs.
Often many people have the same words have different meanings! it depends on the experience of the individual!