The world, in general, is less rational and more emotion-driven than most of us would consider optimal.
EA pushes back against this trend, and as such is far more on the calculating side than the emotional side. This is good—but the correct amount of emotion is not zero, and it’s quite easy for people like us who try to be more calculatory to over-index on calculation, and forget to feel either empathy OR compassion for others. It can be true that the world is too emotion-driven, while a specific group isn’t emotion-driven enough. Whether that’s true of EA or not...I’m not sure.
The world, in general, is less rational and more emotion-driven than most of us would consider optimal.
EA pushes back against this trend, and as such is far more on the calculating side than the emotional side. This is good—but the correct amount of emotion is not zero, and it’s quite easy for people like us who try to be more calculatory to over-index on calculation, and forget to feel either empathy OR compassion for others. It can be true that the world is too emotion-driven, while a specific group isn’t emotion-driven enough. Whether that’s true of EA or not...I’m not sure.