I don’t think you read too much Robin Hanson, it clarifies a lot of things :)
In some sense, I don’t even think these people are wrong to be frustrated. You have to satisfy your own needs before you can effectively help others. One of these needs just happens to be the need to feel relevant. And like everything else, this is a systemic problem. EA should try to make people feel relevant if and only if they’re doing good. If doing good doesn’t get you recognition unless you’re in a prestigious organisation, then we have to fix that.
EA should try to make people feel relevant if and only if they’re doing good.
I would even say something like “iff they’re making an honest attempt at doing good”, because the kids are suffering from enough crippling anxiety as it is :)
Regarding applying to EA organizations, I think we can simply say that the applicants are doing good by applying. Many of the orgs have explicitly said they want lots of applicants—the applicants aren’t wasting the orgs’ time, but helping them get better candidates (in addition to learning a lot through the process, etc).
I don’t think you read too much Robin Hanson, it clarifies a lot of things :)
In some sense, I don’t even think these people are wrong to be frustrated. You have to satisfy your own needs before you can effectively help others. One of these needs just happens to be the need to feel relevant. And like everything else, this is a systemic problem. EA should try to make people feel relevant if and only if they’re doing good. If doing good doesn’t get you recognition unless you’re in a prestigious organisation, then we have to fix that.
Yes, makes sense.
I would even say something like “iff they’re making an honest attempt at doing good”, because the kids are suffering from enough crippling anxiety as it is :)
Regarding applying to EA organizations, I think we can simply say that the applicants are doing good by applying. Many of the orgs have explicitly said they want lots of applicants—the applicants aren’t wasting the orgs’ time, but helping them get better candidates (in addition to learning a lot through the process, etc).