I still consider myself to be EA, but I do feel like a lot of people calling themselves that and interacting with the EA forum aren’t what I would consider EA. Amusingly, my attempts to engage with people on the EA forum recently resulted in someone telling me that my views weren’t EA. So they also see a divide. What to do about two different groups wanting to claim the same movement? I don’t yet feel ready to abandon EA. I feel like I’m a grumpy old man saying “I was here first, and you young’uns don’t understand what the true EA is!”
I still consider myself to be EA, but I do feel like a lot of people calling themselves that and interacting with the EA forum aren’t what I would consider EA. Amusingly, my attempts to engage with people on the EA forum recently resulted in someone telling me that my views weren’t EA. So they also see a divide. What to do about two different groups wanting to claim the same movement? I don’t yet feel ready to abandon EA. I feel like I’m a grumpy old man saying “I was here first, and you young’uns don’t understand what the true EA is!”
A link to a comment I made recently on the EA forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nrC5v6ZSaMEgSyxTn/discussion-thread-animal-welfare-vs-global-health-debate?commentId=bHeZWAGB89kDALFs3