I empathize with you—specifically thinking more about EA since the fall of SBF.
I think one thing to note is “customer acquisition” or simple organizational outreach and recruitment. I was “recruited” through EA from on-campus college initiatives. Whereas many of the outlets fomenting ire against the EA community are all written publications in legacy-prestige, old-media entities like the New Yorker, the Economist, NYT, etc. It’s a different customer segment funnel.
I think these publications tend to speak to people with more years behind them than ahead of them and might not be as invested in being an idealistic futurist trying to “do good” with 80,000 hours of high impact contributions.
Additionally, I think it’s sagacious to see organizations as living entities to some extent (largely because it’s populated by actual organisms). I don’t think any organization can maintain a stasis of pristine public image, always in the public consciousness, etc. I think some bit of notoriety is normal periodically.
Lastly, from a CBT perspective I’m seeing some personalization (i.e. you believe you’re responsible for the faith of thousands or millions of EA’ers), control (you think you can directly control through worry), jumping to conclusions (you think many people are associating SBF with EA more than, say, an entrenched crypto ecosystem). Point is, if I were you, I wouldn’t trust my thoughts on this one. They’re just thoughts.
I empathize with you—specifically thinking more about EA since the fall of SBF.
I think one thing to note is “customer acquisition” or simple organizational outreach and recruitment. I was “recruited” through EA from on-campus college initiatives. Whereas many of the outlets fomenting ire against the EA community are all written publications in legacy-prestige, old-media entities like the New Yorker, the Economist, NYT, etc. It’s a different customer segment funnel.
I think these publications tend to speak to people with more years behind them than ahead of them and might not be as invested in being an idealistic futurist trying to “do good” with 80,000 hours of high impact contributions.
Additionally, I think it’s sagacious to see organizations as living entities to some extent (largely because it’s populated by actual organisms). I don’t think any organization can maintain a stasis of pristine public image, always in the public consciousness, etc. I think some bit of notoriety is normal periodically.
Lastly, from a CBT perspective I’m seeing some personalization (i.e. you believe you’re responsible for the faith of thousands or millions of EA’ers), control (you think you can directly control through worry), jumping to conclusions (you think many people are associating SBF with EA more than, say, an entrenched crypto ecosystem). Point is, if I were you, I wouldn’t trust my thoughts on this one. They’re just thoughts.
Hope this helps.