Strongly agree with this post. I think my session at EAG Boston 2024 (audience forecasting, which was fairly group-brainstormy) was suboptimal for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

I think most of us should get direct work jobs, and the E2G crowd should do high-EV careers, even if risky (to the extent that they're personally sustainable).

No, that wouldn't prove moral realism at all. That would just show you and a bunch of aliens happen to have the same opinions.

Morality is Objective

There's no evidence of this, and the burden of proof is on people who think it's true. I've never even heard a coherent argument in favor of this proposition without assuming god exists.

This doesn't answer the question for people who live in high-income countries and don't feel envy. Should they abstain? Should they answer about whether they would envy someone in their own position if they were less advantaged?

If you're someone with an impressive background, you can answer this by asking yourself if you feel that you would be valued even without that background. Using myself as an example, I...

1. went to a not so well-known public college
2. worked an unimpressive job
3. started participating in EA
4. quit the unimpressive job, studied at fancy university
5. worked at high-status ingroup organizations
6. posted on the forum and got upvotes

Was I warmly accepted into EA back when my resume was much weaker than it is now? Do I think I would have gotten the same upvotes if I had posted anonymously? Yes and yes. So on the question of whether I'm valued within EA regardless of my background, I voted agree.

EA Forum posts have been pretty effective in changing community direction in the past, so the downside risk seems low

But giving more voting power to people with lots of karma entrenches the position/influence of people who are already high in the community based on its current direction, so it would be an obstacle to the possibility of influencing the community through forum posts.

If you think it's important for forum posts to be able to change community direction, you should be against vote power scaling with karma.

Vote power should scale with karma

@Ben Kuhn has a great presentation on this topic. Relatedly, nonprofits have worse names: see org name bingo

Hey! You might be interested in applying to the CTO opening at my org:

https://careers.epoch.ai/en/postings/f5f583f5-3b93-4de2-bf59-c471a6869a81