We’re really bad at predicting how a change would affect our happiness. We overwhelmingly overestimate the impact. If you know this, schlep won’t seem as bigger sacrifice
I think we, as a community, need to incentivise schlepping by granting it more social status and discriminating towards people who do it.
Number 2 there sounds like a new EA podcast: “The unsung warriors of EA” or something. All the podcasts are now about the “thinkers” and researchers—fascinating ideas and intellectually stimulating. The new podcast could instead be made interesting by focusing on the pain, challenges and the coping mechanisms of those schlepping hard. Maybe someone could start asking some serious schleppers about how they would like to be recognized, I just thought podcasts are good as they might simultaneously to recognizing people also inspire others to pursue schlep.
2 points I’d raise:
We’re really bad at predicting how a change would affect our happiness. We overwhelmingly overestimate the impact. If you know this, schlep won’t seem as bigger sacrifice
I think we, as a community, need to incentivise schlepping by granting it more social status and discriminating towards people who do it.
Number 2 there sounds like a new EA podcast: “The unsung warriors of EA” or something. All the podcasts are now about the “thinkers” and researchers—fascinating ideas and intellectually stimulating. The new podcast could instead be made interesting by focusing on the pain, challenges and the coping mechanisms of those schlepping hard. Maybe someone could start asking some serious schleppers about how they would like to be recognized, I just thought podcasts are good as they might simultaneously to recognizing people also inspire others to pursue schlep.