My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology.

My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology.

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1725958636529480155

What do you think caused this perceived downfall?

Cope dealer 🙏 🔲

Building interchain. Web3 UX flippening

Definitely a big change in emphasis over the last 5y from "we are curious and explore lots of hypotheses around a few big ideas" to "we are very convinced of one thesis and will act decisively based on what that thesis implies is true"

Yep, I was generally positive about EA in the first couple of years mid 2010s, when several reasonable friends got sucked into it. Then it slowly morphed into a weird eschatological many-worlds cult of baslisks and bayesian thinking ironically got unmoored from any grounding. You seem to have survived, but many didn't