I was with you right up until the last paragraph where you try to apply this to an office. Even at an ideologically driven nonprofit organization, why would you want an office to be a community? The primary output of an office is basically never the relationships among the people in the office. There is a reason people keep work and personal life separate. Trying to get the personal social benefits of a community from ones coworkers creates an enormous single point of failure in your life. This is bad! And this is just as true at an ideologically driven organization as any other.
I applied it to an office because the conversation that caused me to write this post involved an AI safety group office that the person I was talking to used to work at, which does function as a community.
It’s plausible to me that these recommendations work better for other kinds of community.
I was with you right up until the last paragraph where you try to apply this to an office. Even at an ideologically driven nonprofit organization, why would you want an office to be a community? The primary output of an office is basically never the relationships among the people in the office. There is a reason people keep work and personal life separate. Trying to get the personal social benefits of a community from ones coworkers creates an enormous single point of failure in your life. This is bad! And this is just as true at an ideologically driven organization as any other.
I applied it to an office because the conversation that caused me to write this post involved an AI safety group office that the person I was talking to used to work at, which does function as a community.
It’s plausible to me that these recommendations work better for other kinds of community.
Which group office, if I can ask?