Note that many EA organizations (including CEA) paused/lowered outreach post-FTX. So decreased engagement might be because of FTX in some sense, but maybe not for the reason one would initially think.
Yeah, the OP is all about what has happened and punts on the question of why it has happened. Reduced outreach could definitely be an explanation for how some of these metrics have changed (IMO the other likeliest explanations include reduced funding, disillusionment with EA principles, disillusionment with EA orgs, and disillusionment with EA leaders, though there could certainly be other factors at play). Personally I think reduced outreach makes much more sense for some metrics (e.g. newsletter subscriptions) than others (e.g. forum engagement).
Note that many EA organizations (including CEA) paused/lowered outreach post-FTX. So decreased engagement might be because of FTX in some sense, but maybe not for the reason one would initially think.
Yeah, the OP is all about what has happened and punts on the question of why it has happened. Reduced outreach could definitely be an explanation for how some of these metrics have changed (IMO the other likeliest explanations include reduced funding, disillusionment with EA principles, disillusionment with EA orgs, and disillusionment with EA leaders, though there could certainly be other factors at play). Personally I think reduced outreach makes much more sense for some metrics (e.g. newsletter subscriptions) than others (e.g. forum engagement).
I hope CEA will take an active role in helping answer the “why” question, as it is responsible for some data sets that would help shed some light on it.