+1 to the comment here about humour. I’m someone who loves a good laugh and has a pretty dry sense of humour but am particularly wary about it when talking about money and suffering (I’ve seen it go pretty badly in several EA or EA-adjacent contexts).
It’s also very important to think about humour in non-EA social contexts where there are a lot of people within the EA community alongside those who aren’t. Someones first exposure to the community might be somewhere like an informal party and first impressions really count.
+1 to the comment here about humour. I’m someone who loves a good laugh and has a pretty dry sense of humour but am particularly wary about it when talking about money and suffering (I’ve seen it go pretty badly in several EA or EA-adjacent contexts).
It’s also very important to think about humour in non-EA social contexts where there are a lot of people within the EA community alongside those who aren’t. Someones first exposure to the community might be somewhere like an informal party and first impressions really count.