“the EA (Effective Altruism) movement has a pretty strong deference culture.”
Is this some kind of demographic thing? I haven’t noticed it except in terms of college students/recent grads being a bit too attached to the idea of working for EA orgs. I defer when I don’t feel like I have the appropriate knowledge and can’t acquire it in reasonable time, and don’t otherwise.
As someone who was a solo-EA, without knowing there was a whole EA movement, for well over a decade, it’s really nice to be able to rely on other people’s judgment sometimes instead of having to analyze every little thing for myself. But that deference comes from some intuitive sense of cost-benefit tradeoffs involved in investing my time to dive deeper into something, not from a general idea that I should be deferential, and it goes away the moment I sense that the cost-benefit analysis has flipped. And I don’t feel like some kind of outlier for doing this. Another EA once called me an SBF bootlicker just for supporting Carrick Flynn, for example.
“the EA (Effective Altruism) movement has a pretty strong deference culture.”
Is this some kind of demographic thing? I haven’t noticed it except in terms of college students/recent grads being a bit too attached to the idea of working for EA orgs. I defer when I don’t feel like I have the appropriate knowledge and can’t acquire it in reasonable time, and don’t otherwise.
As someone who was a solo-EA, without knowing there was a whole EA movement, for well over a decade, it’s really nice to be able to rely on other people’s judgment sometimes instead of having to analyze every little thing for myself. But that deference comes from some intuitive sense of cost-benefit tradeoffs involved in investing my time to dive deeper into something, not from a general idea that I should be deferential, and it goes away the moment I sense that the cost-benefit analysis has flipped. And I don’t feel like some kind of outlier for doing this. Another EA once called me an SBF bootlicker just for supporting Carrick Flynn, for example.