We seem to have gotten better at engaging with experts and other communities. In the early days, it felt as if a large part of EA narrative was ‘look at all these things the rest of the world is getting wrong’. That might have been partly necessary for carving out a niche, and was usually picking up on something true. But it wasn’t a great way of engaging with others. Whereas now it seems like we do a better job of finding out what others are doing really well that we want to learn about and build on (eg with things like speakers at EA global and the interviews on the 80,000 Hours podcast)
We seem to have gotten better at engaging with experts and other communities. In the early days, it felt as if a large part of EA narrative was ‘look at all these things the rest of the world is getting wrong’. That might have been partly necessary for carving out a niche, and was usually picking up on something true. But it wasn’t a great way of engaging with others. Whereas now it seems like we do a better job of finding out what others are doing really well that we want to learn about and build on (eg with things like speakers at EA global and the interviews on the 80,000 Hours podcast)