It’s been an ongoing discussion at SPARC and ESPR to try to decide how much or how little exposure to EA (as opposed to “EA ideas”) we want to make explicit during the camps. So far the answer has been mostly “fairly little,” and of course we do focus quite a lot on frank conversations about the ups and downsides. But it’s definitely difficult to pass down wisdom rather than just knowledge, and some of the questions have no genuine or easy answer. Thinking on this is certainly something that keeps me up at night every so often.
It’s been an ongoing discussion at SPARC and ESPR to try to decide how much or how little exposure to EA (as opposed to “EA ideas”) we want to make explicit during the camps. So far the answer has been mostly “fairly little,” and of course we do focus quite a lot on frank conversations about the ups and downsides. But it’s definitely difficult to pass down wisdom rather than just knowledge, and some of the questions have no genuine or easy answer. Thinking on this is certainly something that keeps me up at night every so often.