Concretely, I sometimes hear organization leaders say that they choose to have their organization not be âEAâ because doing so opens them to criticism from random people on the EA Forum, and this doesnât occur if they just describe themselves as working on âalternative proteinsâ or whatever.
(Although in this particular case, itâs not clear to me that Ben Pace wouldnât have chosen to investigate Nonlinear if they didnât self describe as âEAâ. It seems like his investigation was triggered by them using Lightcone.)
Concretely, I sometimes hear organization leaders say that they choose to have their organization not be âEAâ because doing so opens them to criticism from random people on the EA Forum, and this doesnât occur if they just describe themselves as working on âalternative proteinsâ or whatever.
(Although in this particular case, itâs not clear to me that Ben Pace wouldnât have chosen to investigate Nonlinear if they didnât self describe as âEAâ. It seems like his investigation was triggered by them using Lightcone.)