Firstly, thank you in general for writing this up, this is an important piece of information and creates common knowledge and norms around how to behave related to the topic.
”You still control your own social circle—you don’t have to be friends with jerks just because they are EAs.”
Joining EA at a subjectively still young and starry-eyed age, I equated anyone associating with EA as “living up to the EA principles”. Now being older and more experienced, I see many younger people in EA making the same mistake. By now, I’m convinced that e.g. interest in ethics and actual ethical behavior and character correlate only very mildly. Similarly, there are many people in EA who are not particularly ethical either. Humans are still humans.
Firstly, thank you in general for writing this up, this is an important piece of information and creates common knowledge and norms around how to behave related to the topic.
”You still control your own social circle—you don’t have to be friends with jerks just because they are EAs.”
Joining EA at a subjectively still young and starry-eyed age, I equated anyone associating with EA as “living up to the EA principles”. Now being older and more experienced, I see many younger people in EA making the same mistake. By now, I’m convinced that e.g. interest in ethics and actual ethical behavior and character correlate only very mildly. Similarly, there are many people in EA who are not particularly ethical either. Humans are still humans.