It seems like the ideal EA post would inspire you towards effective altruist action, not sap your willpower. If anyone is willing to introspect on why the EA stuff they read saps their willpower, I would be really interested to hear more about this.
I thought about this a few times shortly after your subcomment, and in passing in the intervening months, and could identify lots of possible factors but not a firm conclusion as to the main ones. I do notice now that I find EA stuff less difficult to read now, which makes me think that part of it was simply that the learning curve was a lot steeper at first. I still don’t find it as easy to read as, say, FAI and x-risk posts, so I think it might also partly be a matter of where my interests and inclinations lie right now (it might change if I actually study EA and get up to speed more properly, or absorb it more over time). But in terms of blocks to reading, out of those two, the learning curve is the actionable one.
“non-willpower-sapping”
It seems like the ideal EA post would inspire you towards effective altruist action, not sap your willpower. If anyone is willing to introspect on why the EA stuff they read saps their willpower, I would be really interested to hear more about this.
I thought about this a few times shortly after your subcomment, and in passing in the intervening months, and could identify lots of possible factors but not a firm conclusion as to the main ones. I do notice now that I find EA stuff less difficult to read now, which makes me think that part of it was simply that the learning curve was a lot steeper at first. I still don’t find it as easy to read as, say, FAI and x-risk posts, so I think it might also partly be a matter of where my interests and inclinations lie right now (it might change if I actually study EA and get up to speed more properly, or absorb it more over time). But in terms of blocks to reading, out of those two, the learning curve is the actionable one.
Thanks for the info!