(recognizing that there’s definitely areas within the rationality community / memeset that reinforce fairly similar high-stakes-memes as the EA memeset. But my experience is that overall the rationality community doesn’t put nearly as pervasive pressure to be ‘impactful’ – there’s a lot more room for just exploring interesting ideas because they are neat, or whatnot)
This is actually exactly why I think the rationality community / memeset makes more sense as entry level EA than the EA community
(recognizing that there’s definitely areas within the rationality community / memeset that reinforce fairly similar high-stakes-memes as the EA memeset. But my experience is that overall the rationality community doesn’t put nearly as pervasive pressure to be ‘impactful’ – there’s a lot more room for just exploring interesting ideas because they are neat, or whatnot)