The podcast with Rob Wiblin and Nick Beckstead is about whether EA should “aim to be a very broad movement that appeals to potentially hundreds of millions of people”. I initially read your post as addressing that question. Maybe a good answer to that question is “not before we’ve found useful things for the people already interested in EA to do”. My point about branding is most relevant in the case where we’ve found a useful thing and we want to scale it up beyond the existing EA community.
By the way, this new post is interesting, from a guy with a ridiculous resume who get rejected for 20 different EA positions.
That makes sense.
The podcast with Rob Wiblin and Nick Beckstead is about whether EA should “aim to be a very broad movement that appeals to potentially hundreds of millions of people”. I initially read your post as addressing that question. Maybe a good answer to that question is “not before we’ve found useful things for the people already interested in EA to do”. My point about branding is most relevant in the case where we’ve found a useful thing and we want to scale it up beyond the existing EA community.
By the way, this new post is interesting, from a guy with a ridiculous resume who get rejected for 20 different EA positions.