I would probably also just stop attending an open-invite EA Global since I don’t expect it would really share my culture or be selected for people I would really want to be around
I’m kind of surprised by this—if EAG was open, what sort of people do you think would come, and in what way would they not share your culture?
Like as an example: this year I didn’t get into EAG when I first applied, and then I reapplied when I got an internship at an EA org, and got in. This is understandable—I didn’t have very strong ‘legible’ signals of EA engagement apart from the internship, arguably. But also, like, my culture/who I am as a person clearly didn’t change much between the two applications! So I guess my expectation for who would come if it were open are:
-people who are engaged in their local EA communities and ‘into’ EA but haven’t shown legible enough signs of ‘promise’ to get accepted under the status quo -people like the person screenshotted in the post, who have changed their career on EA principles, who maybe wouldn’t get much out of networking, but who are excited to talk to others who share their values
I’m kind of surprised by this—if EAG was open, what sort of people do you think would come, and in what way would they not share your culture?
Like as an example: this year I didn’t get into EAG when I first applied, and then I reapplied when I got an internship at an EA org, and got in. This is understandable—I didn’t have very strong ‘legible’ signals of EA engagement apart from the internship, arguably. But also, like, my culture/who I am as a person clearly didn’t change much between the two applications! So I guess my expectation for who would come if it were open are:
-people who are engaged in their local EA communities and ‘into’ EA but haven’t shown legible enough signs of ‘promise’ to get accepted under the status quo
-people like the person screenshotted in the post, who have changed their career on EA principles, who maybe wouldn’t get much out of networking, but who are excited to talk to others who share their values