I found this post harder to understand than the rest of the series. The thing you’re describing makes sense in theory, but I haven’t seen it in practice and I’m not sure what it would look like.
What EA-related lifestyle changes people would other people find alienating? Veganism? Not participating in especially expensive activities? Talking about EA?
I haven’t found “talking about EA” to be a problem, as long as I’m not trying to sell my friends on it without their asking first. I don’t think EA is unique in this way — I’d be annoyed if my religious friends tried to proselytize to me or if my activist friends were pressuring me to come and protest with them.
If I talk about my job or what I’ve been reading lately in the sense of “here’s my life update”, that goes fine, because we’re all sharing those kinds of life updates. I avoid the EA-jargon bits of my job and focus on human stories or funny anecdotes. (Similarly, my programmer friends don’t share coding-related stories I won’t understand.)
And then, when we’re not sharing stories, we’re doing things like gaming or hiking or remembering the good times, all of which seem orthogonal to EA. But all friendships are different, and I assume I’m overlooking obstacles that other people have encountered.
I found this post harder to understand than the rest of the series. The thing you’re describing makes sense in theory, but I haven’t seen it in practice and I’m not sure what it would look like.
What EA-related lifestyle changes people would other people find alienating? Veganism? Not participating in especially expensive activities? Talking about EA?
I haven’t found “talking about EA” to be a problem, as long as I’m not trying to sell my friends on it without their asking first. I don’t think EA is unique in this way — I’d be annoyed if my religious friends tried to proselytize to me or if my activist friends were pressuring me to come and protest with them.
If I talk about my job or what I’ve been reading lately in the sense of “here’s my life update”, that goes fine, because we’re all sharing those kinds of life updates. I avoid the EA-jargon bits of my job and focus on human stories or funny anecdotes. (Similarly, my programmer friends don’t share coding-related stories I won’t understand.)
And then, when we’re not sharing stories, we’re doing things like gaming or hiking or remembering the good times, all of which seem orthogonal to EA. But all friendships are different, and I assume I’m overlooking obstacles that other people have encountered.
(Also, props for doing the research!)