Given that we observe EA growth stalling a naturally question would be to ask where people went instead. I would suspect that a lot of people who went to university and wanted to create positive change in the world went into social justice activism. That activism is based on a different epistemology that focus on the experience of various groups that are perceived as unprivileged instead of focusing on empiric evidence and utility calculations.
Given that we observe EA growth stalling a naturally question would be to ask where people went instead. I would suspect that a lot of people who went to university and wanted to create positive change in the world went into social justice activism. That activism is based on a different epistemology that focus on the experience of various groups that are perceived as unprivileged instead of focusing on empiric evidence and utility calculations.