Expanding on those points:
Should EA be small and elite (i.e. to influence important/powerful actors) or broad and welcoming?
How many people should earn to give and how effective is this on the margin? (Maybe not a huge debate but a lot of uncertainty)
How much/should we grow EA in non-Western countries? (I think there’s a fair deal of ignorance on this topic overall)
Related to D&I:
How important is academic diversity in EA? And what blindspots does the EA movement have as a result?
I don’t think all of these have been always publicly discussed, but there is definitely a lack of consensus and differing views.
I think there’s quite a large diversity in what people in EA did in undergrad / grad school. There’s plenty of medics and a small but nontrivial number of biologists around, for example.
What they wish they’d done at university, or what they’re studying now, might be another matter.
Expanding on those points: Should EA be small and elite (i.e. to influence important/powerful actors) or broad and welcoming? How many people should earn to give and how effective is this on the margin? (Maybe not a huge debate but a lot of uncertainty) How much/should we grow EA in non-Western countries? (I think there’s a fair deal of ignorance on this topic overall)
Related to D&I: How important is academic diversity in EA? And what blindspots does the EA movement have as a result?
I don’t think all of these have been always publicly discussed, but there is definitely a lack of consensus and differing views.
What does “academic diversity” mean? I could imagine a few possible interpretations.
Getting people from non-STEM backgrounds, specifically non-econ social sciences and humanities.
I read it as ‘getting some people who aren’t economists, philosophers, or computer scientists’. (:
(Speaking as a philosophy+economics grad and a sort-of computer scientist.)
I think there’s quite a large diversity in what people in EA did in undergrad / grad school. There’s plenty of medics and a small but nontrivial number of biologists around, for example.
What they wish they’d done at university, or what they’re studying now, might be another matter.