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?

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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"

I also suspect that the earlier culture of avoiding politics may have backfired as it means that as they are going very very deep into politics (understandably, given the emergency situation that the AI x-risk thesis implies) now they have much less experience than they otherwise could have had.