I suspect that part of the reason why this is happened is that the EA community is closely associated with the rationality community, so it’s often easiest just to have the personal development discussion online over there. Plus another reason that people mightn’t feel a need for it online is that lots of discussion of personal development occurs informally at meetups.
I agree with this. But I also want to add—I think a lot of EAs are put off from the rationalist community for different reasons (e.g. seemingly less-than-altruistic motivations, inaccessible language, discussions about things that don’t always feel practically relevant, etc.)
From a personal anecdote: I’ve had an eye on LessWrong and other rationalist spaces for some time, but never thought it was my territory for some of the reasons mentioned above. It wasn’t until I went to a CFAR workshop when I finally felt I knew enough about rationality to actually contribute to rationality discussions.
I see a lot of work being done to make EA more accessible to people who don’t have personal ties to the EA community, but not as much effort from the rationalist community on this. I feel like this could potentially be impactful for contributing to the personal development of EAs.
I suspect that part of the reason why this is happened is that the EA community is closely associated with the rationality community, so it’s often easiest just to have the personal development discussion online over there. Plus another reason that people mightn’t feel a need for it online is that lots of discussion of personal development occurs informally at meetups.
I agree with this. But I also want to add—I think a lot of EAs are put off from the rationalist community for different reasons (e.g. seemingly less-than-altruistic motivations, inaccessible language, discussions about things that don’t always feel practically relevant, etc.)
From a personal anecdote: I’ve had an eye on LessWrong and other rationalist spaces for some time, but never thought it was my territory for some of the reasons mentioned above. It wasn’t until I went to a CFAR workshop when I finally felt I knew enough about rationality to actually contribute to rationality discussions.
I see a lot of work being done to make EA more accessible to people who don’t have personal ties to the EA community, but not as much effort from the rationalist community on this. I feel like this could potentially be impactful for contributing to the personal development of EAs.