Didn’t EA originate as a professional community though specifically in the context of finding effective charities and 80k?
I have a hard time picturing an early EA community that isn’t professionally focused. Though maybe I didn’t get into EA early enough to know.
Strongly agree with your second point regarding openness to weird ideas.
Not in the Bay Area. Polyamory was a big discussion topic on LessWrong as far back as 2011: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kLR5H4pbaBjzZxLv6/polyhacking
Didn’t EA originate as a professional community though specifically in the context of finding effective charities and 80k?
I have a hard time picturing an early EA community that isn’t professionally focused. Though maybe I didn’t get into EA early enough to know.
Strongly agree with your second point regarding openness to weird ideas.
Not in the Bay Area. Polyamory was a big discussion topic on LessWrong as far back as 2011: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kLR5H4pbaBjzZxLv6/polyhacking