This seems plausible. Josh Jacobson has been saying a similar thing under the header of crossing the chasm. It could be that EA will only be able to attract a small group of early adopters and won’t be able to grow to the scale we need to be highly effective.
To be clear, my point is more with regard for the need to spread our message in a way that allows for sustainable growth, v. in a way that most appeals to current EAs. It says nothing about the potential for growth for EA, which I do believe is profound, but rather about our ability to capture it (and long-term dangers of our current communications being non-optimized).
This seems plausible. Josh Jacobson has been saying a similar thing under the header of crossing the chasm. It could be that EA will only be able to attract a small group of early adopters and won’t be able to grow to the scale we need to be highly effective.
To be clear, my point is more with regard for the need to spread our message in a way that allows for sustainable growth, v. in a way that most appeals to current EAs. It says nothing about the potential for growth for EA, which I do believe is profound, but rather about our ability to capture it (and long-term dangers of our current communications being non-optimized).