But EA seems increasingly ideological to me, it seems to be a lot less concerned with asking and answering a genuinely open question, and a lot more concerned with causing people to follow established paths to impact.
That may be true, though I would note that EA should have been more open to new causes in the beginning, until it did a bunch of research and found promising cause areas. I will also note that there is evidence that EA is still open to new cause areas, such as the recent shift from focusing on AI catastrophes to making AI futures go well (not to mention many individual EAs shifting between cause areas within EA).
But if EA were more ideological, does this mean it is dying? Maybe it is a worse fit for some people as a community. But I think the most important question is, āIs EA having more positive impact?ā I agree that that is not just a function of jobs switched and money moved. But overall, I think it is having more positive impact, so I would not call that dying.
That may be true, though I would note that EA should have been more open to new causes in the beginning, until it did a bunch of research and found promising cause areas. I will also note that there is evidence that EA is still open to new cause areas, such as the recent shift from focusing on AI catastrophes to making AI futures go well (not to mention many individual EAs shifting between cause areas within EA).
But if EA were more ideological, does this mean it is dying? Maybe it is a worse fit for some people as a community. But I think the most important question is, āIs EA having more positive impact?ā I agree that that is not just a function of jobs switched and money moved. But overall, I think it is having more positive impact, so I would not call that dying.