If EAs have shitty lives many fewer people will become EAs. EAs should give up to the limit of their ability to have the same to slightly better lives than their peers by being more efficient with their money in purchasing happiness. Modulo other considerations such as reinvesting in human capital for giving later etc. This will also lead to greater productivity which is often too heavily discounted in people’s calculation on the basis of the introspection illusion: thinking that their future self will be able to tank the hits from a crappier life for the sake of values than they actually will be able to.
If EAs have shitty lives many fewer people will become EAs. EAs should give up to the limit of their ability to have the same to slightly better lives than their peers by being more efficient with their money in purchasing happiness. Modulo other considerations such as reinvesting in human capital for giving later etc. This will also lead to greater productivity which is often too heavily discounted in people’s calculation on the basis of the introspection illusion: thinking that their future self will be able to tank the hits from a crappier life for the sake of values than they actually will be able to.