I want to be clear—I don’t think these people haven’t achieved anything or done good, but e.g. 80,000 hours’ impact is indirect rather than direct. I’m not saying we shouldn’t celebrate these people, but if we only focus on community building/meta level activity, then there’s a risk EA ends up in a level of abstraction/MLM kind of space. My point was I don’t think we should only celebrate EAs who create public discourse and the infrastructure to support more people becoming (better) EAs.
I want to be clear—I don’t think these people haven’t achieved anything or done good, but e.g. 80,000 hours’ impact is indirect rather than direct. I’m not saying we shouldn’t celebrate these people, but if we only focus on community building/meta level activity, then there’s a risk EA ends up in a level of abstraction/MLM kind of space. My point was I don’t think we should only celebrate EAs who create public discourse and the infrastructure to support more people becoming (better) EAs.