(Distinct comment on survivorship bias as it seems like a pretty separate topic)
I currently think good knowledge about what drives people away from EA would be valuable, although obviously fairly hard to collect, and can’t remember ever seeing a particularly large collection of reasons given.
I am unsure as to how much we should try and respond to some kinds of complaints though, for things such as people being driven away by weirdness for instance, it is not clear to me that there is much we can do to make EA more inclusive to them without losing a lot of the value of EA (pursuing arguments even if they lead to strange conclusions etc.)
In particular do you know of anyone who left because they only cared about e.g. global poverty and did not want to engage with the far future stuff, who you think would have stayed if EA had been presented to them as including far future stuff from the start? It seems like it might just bring the point when they are put off earlier.
(Distinct comment on survivorship bias as it seems like a pretty separate topic)
I currently think good knowledge about what drives people away from EA would be valuable, although obviously fairly hard to collect, and can’t remember ever seeing a particularly large collection of reasons given.
I am unsure as to how much we should try and respond to some kinds of complaints though, for things such as people being driven away by weirdness for instance, it is not clear to me that there is much we can do to make EA more inclusive to them without losing a lot of the value of EA (pursuing arguments even if they lead to strange conclusions etc.)
In particular do you know of anyone who left because they only cared about e.g. global poverty and did not want to engage with the far future stuff, who you think would have stayed if EA had been presented to them as including far future stuff from the start? It seems like it might just bring the point when they are put off earlier.