One reservation I have about people leaving the EA community is that they might be exactly the kind of people that EA needs. The fundamental project of EA is using reason, science, philosophy, and other epistemological tools to discover how we can use the resources we have to do the most good, and then acting on the information we develop.
The EA community operationalizes this project, and adopts different subordinates values. These subordinate values often strongly affect the feel and the environment of EA. But it is critical that EA has people to challenge the subordinate values and potentially are not lower-level aligned, so they can contribute to the discourse as to the fundamental EA project.
I realize this comment is a bit nonresponsive, because this post pertained more to one who is not getting needs satisfied by EA, not one who disagrees with some aspects of the community.
One reservation I have about people leaving the EA community is that they might be exactly the kind of people that EA needs. The fundamental project of EA is using reason, science, philosophy, and other epistemological tools to discover how we can use the resources we have to do the most good, and then acting on the information we develop.
The EA community operationalizes this project, and adopts different subordinates values. These subordinate values often strongly affect the feel and the environment of EA. But it is critical that EA has people to challenge the subordinate values and potentially are not lower-level aligned, so they can contribute to the discourse as to the fundamental EA project.
I realize this comment is a bit nonresponsive, because this post pertained more to one who is not getting needs satisfied by EA, not one who disagrees with some aspects of the community.