Agreed. EA doesn’t feel intellectually lively anymore. I do think things like forethought foundation and some discussions on AI twitter still are though. What’s tough is that this community used to be associated with trust and intellectual life. You could get it all in one package deal. Whereas now we have to find our sense of belonging in one place, and our intellectual life in another, and probably neither of those is the current EA.
I guess the professionalization of EA/AIS meant that this separation would happen anyway, but it just happened in a particularly demoralizing manner.
You could get it all in one package deal. Whereas now we have to find our sense of belonging in one place, and our intellectual life in another
Very on point. Despite still living up to EA principles as I have for the past ~14 years, I have little interest in the remnants of the EA community institutions.
Agreed. EA doesn’t feel intellectually lively anymore. I do think things like forethought foundation and some discussions on AI twitter still are though. What’s tough is that this community used to be associated with trust and intellectual life. You could get it all in one package deal. Whereas now we have to find our sense of belonging in one place, and our intellectual life in another, and probably neither of those is the current EA.
I guess the professionalization of EA/AIS meant that this separation would happen anyway, but it just happened in a particularly demoralizing manner.
Very on point. Despite still living up to EA principles as I have for the past ~14 years, I have little interest in the remnants of the EA community institutions.