Anecdote: I’m one of those people—would say I’d barely heard of ea / basically didn’t know what it was, before a friend who already knew of it suggested I come to an EA global (I think at the time one got a free t-shirt for referring friends). We were both philosophy students & I studied ethics, so I think he thought I might be intersted even though we’d never talked about EA.
I definitely agree that this seems unusual (and our results show that it is!). Still, it seems reasonable that a very small number of people might stumble across an EAGx first, as in Arden’s anecdote below.
It’s odd to me that people say they “heard about EA” at EA Global. How’d they hear about EA Global, then? 🤔
Anecdote: I’m one of those people—would say I’d barely heard of ea / basically didn’t know what it was, before a friend who already knew of it suggested I come to an EA global (I think at the time one got a free t-shirt for referring friends). We were both philosophy students & I studied ethics, so I think he thought I might be intersted even though we’d never talked about EA.
I definitely agree that this seems unusual (and our results show that it is!). Still, it seems reasonable that a very small number of people might stumble across an EAGx first, as in Arden’s anecdote below.