On what grounds do you expect EAs to have better personal ability?
Something I’ve been idly concerned about in the past is the possibility that EAs might be systematically more ambitious than equivalently competent people, and thus at a given level of ambition, EAs would be systematically less competent. I don’t have a huge amount of evidence for this being borne out in practice, but it’s one not-so-implausible way that EA charity founders might be worse than average at the skills needed to found charities.
On what grounds do you expect EAs to have better personal ability?
Something I’ve been idly concerned about in the past is the possibility that EAs might be systematically more ambitious than equivalently competent people, and thus at a given level of ambition, EAs would be systematically less competent. I don’t have a huge amount of evidence for this being borne out in practice, but it’s one not-so-implausible way that EA charity founders might be worse than average at the skills needed to found charities.