While I intend to discuss this with Pete directly, my general objection is that commenters don’t discuss this as if EA is seeking to have a much higher bar and failing. They mostly discuss it as if EA is unusually bad.
If there is general agreement that EA has a much higher bar I would expect to see widely upvoted comments saying how much better EA is than comparable spaces even as it still has work to do. I don’t see that.
I think the absence of particular harms is easy to overlook, in all sorts of areas, especially in a space focused on identifying tractable problems, so I wouldn’t update the same way based on lack of positive discussion. I’ll happily go on the record and say (as a woman) that I’ve had much, much better experiences in male-dominated EA spaces than male-dominated non-EA spaces.
While I intend to discuss this with Pete directly, my general objection is that commenters don’t discuss this as if EA is seeking to have a much higher bar and failing. They mostly discuss it as if EA is unusually bad.
If there is general agreement that EA has a much higher bar I would expect to see widely upvoted comments saying how much better EA is than comparable spaces even as it still has work to do. I don’t see that.
I think the absence of particular harms is easy to overlook, in all sorts of areas, especially in a space focused on identifying tractable problems, so I wouldn’t update the same way based on lack of positive discussion. I’ll happily go on the record and say (as a woman) that I’ve had much, much better experiences in male-dominated EA spaces than male-dominated non-EA spaces.
Okay :)
And what about EA compared to typical workplaces/ university spaces?