I strongly felt the same when I opened the forum today. When reading the post titles mentioning “some apology email of Bostrom” I figured it couldn’t have been anything good and my first thought was “Oh god, not again”. I’d love to think about and discuss how to make the world the best place it can be. I’d also love to spread the EA ideas to other people, but the bar to then also join the community is high and the ideas once you’re beyond the principles are weird and for many, difficult to grasp. When I first learned about EA, I thought of it as a very elite thing. I’d love to be able to say that this is no longer the case, but sadly, it isn’t. I’ve been thinking about starting an EA University group, but the feelings expressed above have made me doubt doing so. The “drama” (apology for not finding a better word) of today and the previous months makes me doubt even more. I don’t want to represent a community that is about apologizing for other people’s actions, nor do I want to invite other people into such a community.
I strongly felt the same when I opened the forum today. When reading the post titles mentioning “some apology email of Bostrom” I figured it couldn’t have been anything good and my first thought was “Oh god, not again”. I’d love to think about and discuss how to make the world the best place it can be. I’d also love to spread the EA ideas to other people, but the bar to then also join the community is high and the ideas once you’re beyond the principles are weird and for many, difficult to grasp. When I first learned about EA, I thought of it as a very elite thing. I’d love to be able to say that this is no longer the case, but sadly, it isn’t. I’ve been thinking about starting an EA University group, but the feelings expressed above have made me doubt doing so. The “drama” (apology for not finding a better word) of today and the previous months makes me doubt even more. I don’t want to represent a community that is about apologizing for other people’s actions, nor do I want to invite other people into such a community.