Value drift seems like a risk. You might start off with a set of altruistic beliefs, but if you spend all your professional and social time around a set of people who don’t share those beliefs then you are likely to adopt those beliefs, for the various well studied psychological effects of conformity and what information you will be being exposed to.
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Excellent story.
Do you have any writing elsewhere?
Same. I’m fairly confident in my writing skills but lack any talent in the other areas and would find doing so embarassing
The claim that EA is talent constrained not money constrained always confuses me. Since there are no shortage of young talented people interested in EA, but there seem to be very few jobs for them to do in EA. If there is this huge pile of money sitting around why not give it to pepole in exchange for their labor? As every other industry or cause does.