I summarised Elliot’s post in my mind as a form of reflecting on how a decision affects you over differing time horizons, as well as the second-order consequences of a decision. I would add to his bullet list of reasons to return home if you plan on having kids: going home for kids retains more of your discretionary time.
Having kids is a transformative experience and as such by its very nature you can’t fully predict how you’ll come out the other side of it. Elliot’s post does a good job of stepping that out for us, and lilly’s comments ask some valuable questions about messaging: appealing to older folks that are not EA-aware could be better reached. I resonate with both paragraphs of lilly’s comment. At the time of my reply I can see three detractors from lilly’s comments—I’d like to have read their responses here why they disagreed.
I summarised Elliot’s post in my mind as a form of reflecting on how a decision affects you over differing time horizons, as well as the second-order consequences of a decision. I would add to his bullet list of reasons to return home if you plan on having kids: going home for kids retains more of your discretionary time.
Having kids is a transformative experience and as such by its very nature you can’t fully predict how you’ll come out the other side of it. Elliot’s post does a good job of stepping that out for us, and lilly’s comments ask some valuable questions about messaging: appealing to older folks that are not EA-aware could be better reached. I resonate with both paragraphs of lilly’s comment. At the time of my reply I can see three detractors from lilly’s comments—I’d like to have read their responses here why they disagreed.