Daystar Eld

The Cost of Rejection

• Daystar Eld 8 Oct 2021 22:12 UTC

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  in reply to: Jan_Kulveit’s comment on: The Cost of Rejection

  Yeah, this seems a hard problem to do well and safely from an organizational standpoint. I’m very sympathetic to the idea that it is an onerous cost on the organization’s side; what I’m uncertain about is whether it ends up being more beneficial to the community on net.

• Daystar Eld 9 Oct 2021 21:22 UTC

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  in reply to: Benjamin_Todd’s comment on: The Cost of Rejection

  Hey, thanks for the comment! Just to clarify because I may be too sleep deprived to track what you’re saying… I originally read that as proportional by percent but not by absolute numbers, right?

  So if roughly 900 new people per year are considered engaged enough to count as part of the community, ~20% of that and ~20% of 650 would still leave a growing number of people in the community working EA jobs, and even ~30% or ~40% increase in jobs would still leave a growing absolute number of people in the community not working EA jobs.
  
  (Again, not to say that this is bad necessarily, and as you noted there’s also people who were funded by grants or doing research or similar)

• Daystar Eld 11 Oct 2021 23:41 UTC

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  in reply to: Benjamin_Todd’s comment on: The Cost of Rejection

  Ah, yeah that wasn’t intended as my meaning. Will edit :)

• Daystar Eld 11 Oct 2021 23:44 UTC

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  in reply to: John_Maxwell’s comment on: The Cost of Rejection

  This is great to hear and an interesting read, thank you for sharing!

• Daystar Eld 19 Oct 2021 20:36 UTC

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  in reply to: eanonymous’s comment on: The Cost of Rejection

  Agreed, more public figures of people who found something meaningful and impactful that wasn’t what they initially thought they would/​should work on would help with that :)

• Daystar Eld 23 Jan 2022 22:37 UTC

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  in reply to: ChanaMessinger’s comment on: Off Road: sup­port for EAs strug­gling at uni

  Gavin covers the rest of it, so to talk about the “parts” thing; in this context I’m using it more as a semantic handle on what it means to have internal conflict, and not explicitly as an IFS thing. Psychotherapists have been talking about individuals as being made up of “parts” from the very beginning (Freud’s Id, Ego, Superego) and with all due respect to our mutual CFAR friend, if there’s any other way to describe and interface with the experience of internal conflict as well, I have yet to hear it :)
  
  In other words, I’ve written “a signal from one or more of your parts” as basically equivalent to “a signal that you aren’t fully convinced.” I think the latter is lower-resolution way of saying the former, but could be convinced it’s better if people largely expect the coaching to center around IFS-type things.
  
  As for “shoulds,” I think we can get rid of the way they exist as harmful things without eliminating what you call “moral obligations,” which I agree are good things (and sort of important to the “Altruist” part of Effective Altruism!). Basically I consider the two phrases to be pointing at very different phenomena in general; I think “shoulds” comes from an external source, even if it’s been internalized, while moral obligations are the result of internal generators, and aren’t the sort of thing that would respond to the sorts of questions and interventions that tend to dissolve shoulds.

Off Road: In­ter­views with EA Col­lege Dropouts

• Daystar Eld 5 Apr 2022 12:20 UTC

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  in reply to: Kaleem’s comment on: Off Road: In­ter­views with EA Col­lege Dropouts

  Done!

• Daystar Eld 5 Apr 2022 12:41 UTC

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  in reply to: Jan_Kulveit’s comment on: Off Road: In­ter­views with EA Col­lege Dropouts

  Woops, good point. Fixed!

• Daystar Eld 18 Apr 2022 10:35 UTC

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  on: Men­tal Health Nav­i­ga­tor Progress Report

  This is an enormously valuable project, thank you and the others so much for continuing to work on making sure it can meet the community’s needs!

• Daystar Eld 12 May 2022 14:31 UTC

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  in reply to: Dave Cortright’s comment on: Off Road: sup­port for EAs strug­gling at uni

  Hi Dave, emailing you now :)

• Daystar Eld 12 May 2022 19:48 UTC

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  on: Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

  I’ve been speaking to a number of people in university organizing groups who have been aware of these issues, and almost across the board the major issue they feel is that it seems too conflict-generating/​bad/​guilt-inducing to essentially tell their friends and peers in their or other universities something like “Hey, I think the thing you’re doing is actually causing a lot of harm, actually.”
  
  I would be very in favor of helping find ways to facilitate better communication between these groups that specifically targets ways they can improve in non-blaming, pro-social and supportive ways.

• Daystar Eld 19 Jun 2022 5:54 UTC

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  on: Seven ways to be­come un­stop­pably agentic

  Great breakdown of the skills and concrete steps, thanks for writing this! I can already tell I’ll be linking people to this fairly often :)

Off Road: Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 1

• Daystar Eld 17 Sep 2022 13:05 UTC

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  on: Many ther­apy schools work with in­ner mul­ti­plic­ity (not just IFS)

  Thanks to both of you for writing this! Very valuable resource to have on hand, and a great review of different aspects of therapeutic modes of thought/​self-help processes.

For the men­tal health of those af­fected by the FTX crisis...

• Daystar Eld 14 Nov 2022 9:06 UTC

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  on: Es­ti­mat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity that FTX Fu­ture Fund grant money gets clawed back

  I would like to request people share their models for what mechanisms or laws might actually allow this sort of thing to happen.

  So far as I know from only basic research, clawbacks are the result of things like tax miscalculations, contract effects (excess profit made that then has to be divided as agreed upon), insurance fraud, etc. Unless a contract was signed or criminal connection is suspected, it seems highly unlikely to me.

• Daystar Eld 19 Nov 2022 9:27 UTC

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  on: Writ­ing EA Fic­tion is Difficult: An After Ac­tion Review

  Thanks for the writeup! I haven’t read either of your stories yet (there are far too many these days for me to keep up with alongside writing my own) but I’m wondering if you participate in the /​r/​rational subreddit or discord community at all? A sense of community and people to talk to about the story/​get more engaged feedback on questions/​struggles etc you have might be helpful (sorry if this seems basic, I don’t recognize your username or the story names from there but I may have missed them).

Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 2