Eric, I misinterpreted your prior concerns on social media. I thought you meant we need to seem less like one big group having fun among ourselves. You’re basically making the opposite point. I actually like Soylent, the powder food, and going like sitting around eating when I could do something more fun and productive. If my friends who are effective altruists didn’t have fun with me, I likely wouldn’t still be an effective altruist. Due to medications I take to stay healthy, I need as much sleep add you normally do. I cannot and won’t do oolyphasic sleep. Making effective altruism about sustainable and marketable behaviors for most of us is likely necessary, and I think a normative pressure to maximize altruistic output beyond standard levels to the detriment of us taking care of ourselves is practically indefensible. I will speak up with you. Excellent post, this is.
Eric, I misinterpreted your prior concerns on social media. I thought you meant we need to seem less like one big group having fun among ourselves. You’re basically making the opposite point. I actually like Soylent, the powder food, and going like sitting around eating when I could do something more fun and productive. If my friends who are effective altruists didn’t have fun with me, I likely wouldn’t still be an effective altruist. Due to medications I take to stay healthy, I need as much sleep add you normally do. I cannot and won’t do oolyphasic sleep. Making effective altruism about sustainable and marketable behaviors for most of us is likely necessary, and I think a normative pressure to maximize altruistic output beyond standard levels to the detriment of us taking care of ourselves is practically indefensible. I will speak up with you. Excellent post, this is.