Notably, (and I think I may feel more strongly about this than others in the space), I’m generally less excited about organizers who are ambitious or entrepreneurial, but less truth-seeking, or have a weak understanding of the content that their group covers.
Do you feel that you’d rather have the existing population of community builders be a bit more ambitious or a bit more truth-seeking? Or: if you could suggest improvement on only one of these virtues to community builders, which would you choose? ETA: Does the answer feel obvious to you, or is it a close call?
(The cop-out answer is “I would like the truth-seeking organizers to be more ambitious, and the ambitious organizers to be more truth-seeking”.)
If I had to choose one, I think I’d go with truth-seeking. It doesn’t feel very close to me, especially among existing university group effective altruism-related organizers (maybe Claire disagrees), largely because I think there’s already been a big recent push towards ambition there, so I think people are generally already thinking pretty ambitiously.
I feel differently about e.g. rationality local group organizers, I wish they would be more ambitious.
Do you feel that you’d rather have the existing population of community builders be a bit more ambitious or a bit more truth-seeking? Or: if you could suggest improvement on only one of these virtues to community builders, which would you choose? ETA: Does the answer feel obvious to you, or is it a close call?
(The cop-out answer is “I would like the truth-seeking organizers to be more ambitious, and the ambitious organizers to be more truth-seeking”.)
If I had to choose one, I think I’d go with truth-seeking. It doesn’t feel very close to me, especially among existing university group effective altruism-related organizers (maybe Claire disagrees), largely because I think there’s already been a big recent push towards ambition there, so I think people are generally already thinking pretty ambitiously.
I feel differently about e.g. rationality local group organizers, I wish they would be more ambitious.
Makes sense—thanks Asya!