The most charitable explanation of the tension here is that people just disagree with you about what is most impactful. I appreciate your transparency in considering whether aesthetics and nostalgia for a previous era of EA might be driving your unease.
Ultimately, it is better to debate the merits of specific interventions than general vibes. I think even the Anthropic folks would agree that, e.g., moving to SF is purely instrumental to some more specific theory of change that may or may not have merit.
Yep. And my plan for doing that is to make specific claims about specific people, projects, and positions and let the vibes be a downstream consequence of that rather than talking about the vibes themselves at a high level.
I am being a hypocrite right here in this comment though.
The most charitable explanation of the tension here is that people just disagree with you about what is most impactful. I appreciate your transparency in considering whether aesthetics and nostalgia for a previous era of EA might be driving your unease.
Ultimately, it is better to debate the merits of specific interventions than general vibes. I think even the Anthropic folks would agree that, e.g., moving to SF is purely instrumental to some more specific theory of change that may or may not have merit.
Huh? Weren’t you quitting a job to start an org to fix the vibes?
Yep. And my plan for doing that is to make specific claims about specific people, projects, and positions and let the vibes be a downstream consequence of that rather than talking about the vibes themselves at a high level.
I am being a hypocrite right here in this comment though.