I think you hit the nail on the head— this forum is not a safe space for me. Like you said, I’m an all-time top poster, and yet I get snobby discouragement on everything I write since I started working on Pause, with the general theme that advocacy is not smart enough for EAs (and a secondary theme of wanting to work for AI companies).
This is a serious problem given what the EA Forum was supposed to be. It’s not a problem with following your rules for polite posts, but it’s against something more important— the purpose of the Forum and of the EA community.
But, I’ve clearly reached the end of my rope, and since I’d like to keep my account and be able to post new stuff here, I’ll just stop commenting.
I think you hit the nail on the head— this forum is not a safe space for me. Like you said, I’m an all-time top poster, and yet I get snobby discouragement on everything I write since I started working on Pause, with the general theme that advocacy is not smart enough for EAs (and a secondary theme of wanting to work for AI companies).
This is a serious problem given what the EA Forum was supposed to be. It’s not a problem with following your rules for polite posts, but it’s against something more important— the purpose of the Forum and of the EA community.
But, I’ve clearly reached the end of my rope, and since I’d like to keep my account and be able to post new stuff here, I’ll just stop commenting.