For what it’s worth, my thoughts are that I’d love to humanise such people but I’d probably like to do that by consuming content they choose to produce or having dinner with them, etc. It does seem like a waste of valuable time that Will chooses to use here to ask him personal info when he could more valuably spend that time imparting information. We aren’t friends we’re working on a project together.
Obviously that project might work better if we humanise each other. On the other hand in jokes cause cliques which inhibit perhaps inhibit the growth of ideologies—the lack of say athiest culture within EA allows Christains within EA to exist, which might not be possible if this forum contained loads of in jokes/ personal non-EA views.
I remember going to a ‘fireside chat’ at EAGxOxford a few years ago—the first such conference I’d been to. The topic was general wellbeing amongst EAs. Hearing Will and the other participants talk candidly about difficulties they’d faced was very humbling and humanising.
I don’t think we should necessarily shy away from such questions.
For what it’s worth, my thoughts are that I’d love to humanise such people but I’d probably like to do that by consuming content they choose to produce or having dinner with them, etc. It does seem like a waste of valuable time that Will chooses to use here to ask him personal info when he could more valuably spend that time imparting information. We aren’t friends we’re working on a project together.
Obviously that project might work better if we humanise each other. On the other hand in jokes cause cliques which inhibit perhaps inhibit the growth of ideologies—the lack of say athiest culture within EA allows Christains within EA to exist, which might not be possible if this forum contained loads of in jokes/ personal non-EA views.
Interested to hear thoughts.
I remember going to a ‘fireside chat’ at EAGxOxford a few years ago—the first such conference I’d been to. The topic was general wellbeing amongst EAs. Hearing Will and the other participants talk candidly about difficulties they’d faced was very humbling and humanising.
I don’t think we should necessarily shy away from such questions.
Thank you.
Though in this set of questions, I think we have, right?