Despite Will branding himself as a leader of the EA community, as far as I can tell he is actually just not very respected among almost any of the other intellectual leaders of the community, at least here in the Bay. He also doesn’t participate in any discourse with really anyone else in the community.
Do you mean not very intellectually respected (partly because he rarely participates in discourse with other EAs) or not very respected in general?
And do you mean that they don’t think he’s a big deal like some other EAs seem to or that they have less respect for him than they have for a random stranger?
Do you mean not very intellectually respected (partly because he rarely participates in discourse with other EAs) or not very respected in general?
I do feel like these are quite close in our community. I think people respect him as a relatively competent speaker and figurehead, though also have a bunch of hesitations that would naturally come with that role. I also think he is probably more just straightforwardly respected in the UK, since he had more of a role in things over there.
And people would definitely trust him more than like a random stranger.
Do you mean not very intellectually respected (partly because he rarely participates in discourse with other EAs) or not very respected in general?
And do you mean that they don’t think he’s a big deal like some other EAs seem to or that they have less respect for him than they have for a random stranger?
I do feel like these are quite close in our community. I think people respect him as a relatively competent speaker and figurehead, though also have a bunch of hesitations that would naturally come with that role. I also think he is probably more just straightforwardly respected in the UK, since he had more of a role in things over there.
And people would definitely trust him more than like a random stranger.