The call to action here resonates—feels really important and true to me, and I was just thinking yesterday about the same problem.
The way I would frame it is this:
The core of EA, what drives all of us together, is not the conclusions (focus on long term! AI!) -- it’s the thought process and principles. Although EA’s conclusions are exciting and headline-worthy, pushing them without pushing the process feels to me like it risks hollowing out an important core and turning EA into (more of) a cult, rather than a discipline.
Edit to add re. “celebrate the process”—A bunch of people have critiqued you for pushing “celebrate all the good actions” since it risks diluting the power of our conclusions, but I think if we frame it as “celebrate and demonstrate the EA process” then that aligns with the point I’m trying to make, and I think works.
The call to action here resonates—feels really important and true to me, and I was just thinking yesterday about the same problem.
The way I would frame it is this:
The core of EA, what drives all of us together, is not the conclusions (focus on long term! AI!) -- it’s the thought process and principles. Although EA’s conclusions are exciting and headline-worthy, pushing them without pushing the process feels to me like it risks hollowing out an important core and turning EA into (more of) a cult, rather than a discipline.
Edit to add re. “celebrate the process”—A bunch of people have critiqued you for pushing “celebrate all the good actions” since it risks diluting the power of our conclusions, but I think if we frame it as “celebrate and demonstrate the EA process” then that aligns with the point I’m trying to make, and I think works.
Thanks! I really like your framing of both these 😀