University EA Groups Need Fixing — EA Forum

I recently resigned as Columbia EA President and have stepped away from the EA community. This post aims to explain my EA experience and some reasons…

William_MacAskill 2y 180 59 10 9 19 4 1 Hey, I’m really sorry to hear about this experience. I’ve also experienced what feels like social pressure to have particular beliefs (e.g. around non-causal decision theory, high AI x-risk estimates, other general pictures of the world), and it’s something I also don’t like about the movement. My biggest worries with my own beliefs stem around the worry that I’d have very different views if I’d found myself in a different social environment. It’s just simply very hard to successfully have a group of people who are trying to both figure out what’s correc

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