Facebook. Twitter. Your telephone. There are plenty of ways to talk to other EAs.
I think potentially the disagreement is whether the Forum should be a one-stop-shop for everything EA or whether it should be reserved for a particular kind of information about EA. I think the EA Forum should be used for sharing ideas with the EA community and receiving useful feedback. I don’t think this post is a good example of that.
(Also, I definitely didn’t think Aaron was acting in bad faith! He said he was selling a thing to the EA community and I agreed he was selling a thing to the EA community. I have no problem with that, just keep it off the Forum.)
I think the EA Forum should be used for sharing ideas with the EA community and receiving useful feedback. I don’t think this post is a good example of that.
Could you expand a little more about why it’s not a good example of “sharing ideas with the EA community and receiving useful feedback”?
i.e. expand more on how “selling something that you think is a good idea” differs from “sharing something that you think is a good idea”?
This is not an idea, it’s an event that has already been planned. If this post was ‘I think getting world leaders to use psychedelics would improve the long term future’ or ‘How we could decriminalize psychedelics in California’ or even ‘I’m hosting an event—how can I make it more useful?’, I’d be more okay with it.
fwiw, I posted stuff like this about 20 months ago, while still in the “idea” phase, and also received a chilly reception then. (I’ve since removed those posts to avoid Google indexing them.)
Facebook. Twitter. Your telephone. There are plenty of ways to talk to other EAs.
I think potentially the disagreement is whether the Forum should be a one-stop-shop for everything EA or whether it should be reserved for a particular kind of information about EA. I think the EA Forum should be used for sharing ideas with the EA community and receiving useful feedback. I don’t think this post is a good example of that.
(Also, I definitely didn’t think Aaron was acting in bad faith! He said he was selling a thing to the EA community and I agreed he was selling a thing to the EA community. I have no problem with that, just keep it off the Forum.)
Could you expand a little more about why it’s not a good example of “sharing ideas with the EA community and receiving useful feedback”?
i.e. expand more on how “selling something that you think is a good idea” differs from “sharing something that you think is a good idea”?
This is not an idea, it’s an event that has already been planned. If this post was ‘I think getting world leaders to use psychedelics would improve the long term future’ or ‘How we could decriminalize psychedelics in California’ or even ‘I’m hosting an event—how can I make it more useful?’, I’d be more okay with it.
Got it, thanks.
fwiw, I posted stuff like this about 20 months ago, while still in the “idea” phase, and also received a chilly reception then. (I’ve since removed those posts to avoid Google indexing them.)