Why should I change any of my actions from the societal default?
If you invest in index funds you’ll probably be richer than if you invest in other things. [EDIT: well, this is only true modulo tax concerns, but grokking the EMH is still very relevant to investing] That’s advice that you can get from other sources, but that I got from the rationality community, that would be useful to me even if I wasn’t trying to save the world.
A separate point is that I think contact with the rationality community got me to consider whether ‘it made sense to get’/‘I really wanted’ things out of my life that I hadn’t previously considered e.g. that I wanted to be an effective altruist and help save the world. I do think that this sort of counts as ‘winning’, although it’s stretching the definition.
If you invest in index funds you’ll probably be richer than if you invest in other things. [EDIT: well, this is only true modulo tax concerns, but grokking the EMH is still very relevant to investing] That’s advice that you can get from other sources, but that I got from the rationality community, that would be useful to me even if I wasn’t trying to save the world.
A separate point is that I think contact with the rationality community got me to consider whether ‘it made sense to get’/‘I really wanted’ things out of my life that I hadn’t previously considered e.g. that I wanted to be an effective altruist and help save the world. I do think that this sort of counts as ‘winning’, although it’s stretching the definition.