[Just threading responses to different topics separately.] Regarding including Dave Denkenberger’s episode, the reason for that isn’t that alternative foods or disaster resilience are especially central EA problem areas.
Rather, in keeping with the focus on worldview and ‘how we think’, we put it in there as a demonstration of entrepreneurship, independent thinking, and general creativity. I can totally see how people could prefer that it be replaced with a different theme, but that was the reasoning. (We give the motivation for including each episode in their respective intros.) — Rob and Keiran
Ah, thanks for the clarification! That makes me feel less strongly about the lack of diversity. I interpreted it as prioritising ALLFED over global health stuff as representative of the work of the EA movement, which felt glaringly wrong
[Just threading responses to different topics separately.] Regarding including Dave Denkenberger’s episode, the reason for that isn’t that alternative foods or disaster resilience are especially central EA problem areas.
Rather, in keeping with the focus on worldview and ‘how we think’, we put it in there as a demonstration of entrepreneurship, independent thinking, and general creativity. I can totally see how people could prefer that it be replaced with a different theme, but that was the reasoning. (We give the motivation for including each episode in their respective intros.) — Rob and Keiran
I understand—thanks for the clarification!
Ah, thanks for the clarification! That makes me feel less strongly about the lack of diversity. I interpreted it as prioritising ALLFED over global health stuff as representative of the work of the EA movement, which felt glaringly wrong