Totally agree. Some EA-skeptical friends asked me if I was EA or EA-adjacent and I said “if everyone with my views described themselves as EA-adjacent (which some of them definitely do) then EA would be much worse for it”.
That said, the leaver’s story is not about making EA better, but about making the world better. And it’s good to open your mind to the idea that these don’t coincide. We would love for them to coincide, but that’s exactly why we should be receptive to thinking that they don’t.
Totally agree. Some EA-skeptical friends asked me if I was EA or EA-adjacent and I said “if everyone with my views described themselves as EA-adjacent (which some of them definitely do) then EA would be much worse for it”.
That said, the leaver’s story is not about making EA better, but about making the world better. And it’s good to open your mind to the idea that these don’t coincide. We would love for them to coincide, but that’s exactly why we should be receptive to thinking that they don’t.