“If you think that movement building is effective in supporting the EA movement, you need to think that the EA movement is negative.”I think you might mean something like “If you think that movement building is effective in supporting the EA movement, you need to think that the EA movement is definitely not negative.”?. I think it depends on how we operationalize community-building. I can definitely see how some forms of community-building is probably negative and I’d want for it to be high quality and relatively targetted. What are some of the reasons why people think the Puerto Rico conference is negative?
Yes, I agree that there’s a non-negligible P that this will happen and that some events will be very harmful (heavy-tailed). Currently, however, saying that it’s >10% seems too high but I could definitely change my mind. But I’m sufficiently worried about this to be skeptical of broad and low-fidelity outreach and I solicit advice from people who are generally skeptical of all forms of movement-building to be sure that we’re sufficiently circumspect in what we do.
“If you think that movement building is effective in supporting the EA movement, you need to think that the EA movement is negative.”I think you might mean something like “If you think that movement building is effective in supporting the EA movement, you need to think that the EA movement is definitely not negative.”?.
I think it depends on how we operationalize community-building. I can definitely see how some forms of community-building is probably negative and I’d want for it to be high quality and relatively targetted.
What are some of the reasons why people think the Puerto Rico conference is negative?
The point was that there is a non-negligible probability that EA will end up negative.
Yes, I agree that there’s a non-negligible P that this will happen and that some events will be very harmful (heavy-tailed). Currently, however, saying that it’s >10% seems too high but I could definitely change my mind. But I’m sufficiently worried about this to be skeptical of broad and low-fidelity outreach and I solicit advice from people who are generally skeptical of all forms of movement-building to be sure that we’re sufficiently circumspect in what we do.