I felt a lot of internal resistance and push back when reading this. I agree that this is NOT WHAT YOU SAID, but I feel like there is already a lot of memery and pressure to let the long term / Mission folks be social free riders and leeches in every other part of their lives and I don’t like it. My brain pattern matched this post into that meme space.
I flinch a little at the tone of this (while also finding it extremely understandable) but want to throw my support behind something like “EA and rationalist memes/values lend themselves to free riding/not tracking village-level negative externalities and that has larger costs than are currently tracked”.
I felt a lot of internal resistance and push back when reading this. I agree that this is NOT WHAT YOU SAID, but I feel like there is already a lot of memery and pressure to let the long term / Mission folks be social free riders and leeches in every other part of their lives and I don’t like it. My brain pattern matched this post into that meme space.
Hm! Interesting. Thank you for the … bravery? … of noting the objection to a perceived social pressure out loud. Never mentioned = never fixed.
I flinch a little at the tone of this (while also finding it extremely understandable) but want to throw my support behind something like “EA and rationalist memes/values lend themselves to free riding/not tracking village-level negative externalities and that has larger costs than are currently tracked”.