In my area the main issues are economic inequality, social intolerance , immigration, incarceration, drug wars, and huge gaps in power between the ‘meritocracy’ (usually in universities) and those not in that class. (Social intolerance works many ways—you can have homophobes worried about islamaphobia, poor white nationalists worried about ‘people of color’ but not economic inequality , etc.) Then there are issues like trade and tarrifs (eg US vs China and Mexico) , and the environment.
The EA people I have met tend to be either grad students in applied sciences or philosophers, and I guess many in IT—they don’ t speak the language of theoretical sciences.
One could probably do a behavioral genetics type analyses of ‘heritability’ or a cultural transmission model of who identifies with EA. (Most progressive types around this area identify more with what are called ‘socialists’ (eg Bernie Sanders, E. Warren, and AOC—all US politicians). They also tend to think to deal with global poverty and other issues one has to deal with local issues as well. )
In my area the main issues are economic inequality, social intolerance , immigration, incarceration, drug wars, and huge gaps in power between the ‘meritocracy’ (usually in universities) and those not in that class. (Social intolerance works many ways—you can have homophobes worried about islamaphobia, poor white nationalists worried about ‘people of color’ but not economic inequality , etc.) Then there are issues like trade and tarrifs (eg US vs China and Mexico) , and the environment.
The EA people I have met tend to be either grad students in applied sciences or philosophers, and I guess many in IT—they don’ t speak the language of theoretical sciences.
One could probably do a behavioral genetics type analyses of ‘heritability’ or a cultural transmission model of who identifies with EA. (Most progressive types around this area identify more with what are called ‘socialists’ (eg Bernie Sanders, E. Warren, and AOC—all US politicians). They also tend to think to deal with global poverty and other issues one has to deal with local issues as well. )