“There are also strong selection effects on retreat attendees vs. intro fellows”
I wonder what these selection effects are. I imagine you get a higher proportion of people who think they are very excited about EA. But also, many of the wicked smart, high achieving people I know are quite busy and don’t think they have time for a retreat like this, so I wonder if you’re somewhat selecting against these people?
Similarly, people who are very thoughtful about opportunity costs and how they spend their time might feel like a commitment like this is too big given that they don’t know much about EA yet and don’t know how much they agree/want to be involved.
“There are also strong selection effects on retreat attendees vs. intro fellows”
I wonder what these selection effects are. I imagine you get a higher proportion of people who think they are very excited about EA. But also, many of the wicked smart, high achieving people I know are quite busy and don’t think they have time for a retreat like this, so I wonder if you’re somewhat selecting against these people?
Similarly, people who are very thoughtful about opportunity costs and how they spend their time might feel like a commitment like this is too big given that they don’t know much about EA yet and don’t know how much they agree/want to be involved.