John thinks he’s in the winners’ bracket (who don’t care about signalling), but he’s actually in the upper-losers’ bracket (who care about countersignalling).
Consider this part:
Occasionally people ask me if I’m going to the next one, and… I try to be polite. But my internal reaction is something like “oh god no, I absolutely cannot be seen at an EA global, that would be super cringe”. EA global, like many other effective altruism branded “networking events”, is (at least in my head) the losers’ bracket of the effective altruism job market.
The actual “winners’ bracket” of the EA job market aren’t thinking about whether it would be super cringe to be seen at EAG. They go if it’s worth their time and don’t if it isn’t. I don’t imagine this is a thought that Holden Karnofsky has ever had.
Separately: John has revealed himself as lower-upper-losers’ bracket, not even upper-upper-losers’ bracket. The upper-upper-losers’ bracket would go to EAG, as a counter-counter-signal that they are confident that everyone will assume they were there to recruit, not to find a job.
John thinks he’s in the winners’ bracket (who don’t care about signalling), but he’s actually in the upper-losers’ bracket (who care about countersignalling).
Consider this part:
The actual “winners’ bracket” of the EA job market aren’t thinking about whether it would be super cringe to be seen at EAG. They go if it’s worth their time and don’t if it isn’t. I don’t imagine this is a thought that Holden Karnofsky has ever had.
Separately: John has revealed himself as lower-upper-losers’ bracket, not even upper-upper-losers’ bracket. The upper-upper-losers’ bracket would go to EAG, as a counter-counter-signal that they are confident that everyone will assume they were there to recruit, not to find a job.