I’m doing a PhD (economics) and feel totally comfortable with my relationship with EA. EA grounds my research and gives me ideas, and on a few occasions I have written things for the EA forum that were just totally helpful things for me to do.
You can judge your output on its own without imagining your counterfactual output if you spent no time on EA. I am deeply skeptical that there’s a lot of fungibility between them. EA engagement feels closer to leisure than to work.
I’m doing a PhD (economics) and feel totally comfortable with my relationship with EA. EA grounds my research and gives me ideas, and on a few occasions I have written things for the EA forum that were just totally helpful things for me to do.
You can judge your output on its own without imagining your counterfactual output if you spent no time on EA. I am deeply skeptical that there’s a lot of fungibility between them. EA engagement feels closer to leisure than to work.