(speaking in a personal capacity) I currently plan to go. I’m willing to be talked out of it. Some meta[1]-level reasons:
I think I’m too biased towards balance and nuance etc. Sometimes it’s good to to call bad things bad.
I think it’s helpful to have more “skin in the game” and not just be abstract and cerebral all the time, or be involved in overly meta activities like grantmaking, fundraising, and EA Forum comments.
I’m pretty uncertain whether this specific protest is net good or bad; though I think most healthy movements or causes have a public protest/public action component as well, so this is a reasonable guess to the portfolio approach.
Compared to most people in positions like mine, I think I’m less likely to get industry jobs in AI companies, or AI policy jobs[2] in the US gov’t, going forwards.
So I’m relatively burning less career capital from doing this than most people in my position.
There’s a bit of “if not me, then who?” comparative advantage angle here.
Like most EAs, some of my funding likely indirectly comes from Meta, and I think it’s worthwhile to try to control for or counteract this bias.
(speaking in a personal capacity) I currently plan to go. I’m willing to be talked out of it. Some meta[1]-level reasons:
I think I’m too biased towards balance and nuance etc. Sometimes it’s good to to call bad things bad.
I think it’s helpful to have more “skin in the game” and not just be abstract and cerebral all the time, or be involved in overly meta activities like grantmaking, fundraising, and EA Forum comments.
I’m pretty uncertain whether this specific protest is net good or bad; though I think most healthy movements or causes have a public protest/public action component as well, so this is a reasonable guess to the portfolio approach.
Compared to most people in positions like mine, I think I’m less likely to get industry jobs in AI companies, or AI policy jobs[2] in the US gov’t, going forwards.
So I’m relatively burning less career capital from doing this than most people in my position.
There’s a bit of “if not me, then who?” comparative advantage angle here.
Like most EAs, some of my funding likely indirectly comes from Meta, and I think it’s worthwhile to try to control for or counteract this bias.
lol
wrong ethnicity/nationality
Awesome, heartening to see this, thanks Linch!