So many different boxes to reply to! I’ll do one reply for everything here.
My main reflection is that either 1. I really haven’t personally had much discussion of inclusivity in my time in the EA movement (and this may just be an outlier/coincidence) or 2. I’m just much more receptive to this sort of chat than the average EA. I live among Oxford students and this probably gives me a different reference point (e.g. people do sometimes introduce themselves with their pronouns here). I forget how disconcertingly social justice-y I found the University when I first moved here.
Either way, the effect is I really haven’t felt like I’ve had too many discussion in EA about diversity. It’s not like it’s my favourite topic or anything.
FWIW, I read your comments as a useful data point (“Huh. Here’s someone who’s been pretty involved in EA for a year or two [not certain that’s accurate] and hasn’t come across many discussions of diversity/inclusion.”)
Either way, the effect is I really haven’t felt like I’ve had too many discussion in EA about diversity. It’s not like it’s my favourite topic or anything.
It’s extremely hard to generalize here because different geographies have such different stories to tell, but my personal take is that the level of (public) discussion about diversity within EA has dipped somewhat over time.
When I wrote the Pandora’s Box 2.5 years ago, I remember being sincerely worried that low-quality discussion of the issue would swamp a lot of good things that EA was accomplishing, and I wanted build some consensus before that got out of hand. I can’t really imagine feeling that way now.
So many different boxes to reply to! I’ll do one reply for everything here.
My main reflection is that either 1. I really haven’t personally had much discussion of inclusivity in my time in the EA movement (and this may just be an outlier/coincidence) or 2. I’m just much more receptive to this sort of chat than the average EA. I live among Oxford students and this probably gives me a different reference point (e.g. people do sometimes introduce themselves with their pronouns here). I forget how disconcertingly social justice-y I found the University when I first moved here.
Either way, the effect is I really haven’t felt like I’ve had too many discussion in EA about diversity. It’s not like it’s my favourite topic or anything.
FWIW, I read your comments as a useful data point (“Huh. Here’s someone who’s been pretty involved in EA for a year or two [not certain that’s accurate] and hasn’t come across many discussions of diversity/inclusion.”)
It’s extremely hard to generalize here because different geographies have such different stories to tell, but my personal take is that the level of (public) discussion about diversity within EA has dipped somewhat over time.
When I wrote the Pandora’s Box 2.5 years ago, I remember being sincerely worried that low-quality discussion of the issue would swamp a lot of good things that EA was accomplishing, and I wanted build some consensus before that got out of hand. I can’t really imagine feeling that way now.