Most EA content tells you what to do. This session is about how it actually feels to try and do it. We’ll share honest experiences of the stress, demandingness, and occasional existential dread that comes with taking the EA worldview seriously—and explore what’s been proposed to help. We’ll draw on Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt series and other writing from the EA Forum, and figure out together which approaches actually hold up.
Discussion: The Psychology of Taking EA Seriously
Most EA content tells you what to do. This session is about how it actually feels to try and do it. We’ll share honest experiences of the stress, demandingness, and occasional existential dread that comes with taking the EA worldview seriously—and explore what’s been proposed to help. We’ll draw on Nate Soares’ Replacing Guilt series and other writing from the EA Forum, and figure out together which approaches actually hold up.