Rob Wiblin

get solace and friendship from their local community of EAs, like people do from their local church community.

But it is more than that.

It is trying to say something about the sweep of the world and your place in it and what it means to live a good and meaningful life.

And it intersects with politics and community and a bunch of other things while not being exactly the same as it.

Yeah, I think that is how it ends up manifesting for a lot of people.

But I don't think that's really, like, what EA is.

Or, like, I think it's a mistake to collapse EA into a set of, like, three or four goals in the world.

Like, you know, reducing suffering of animals in factory farms, plus, like, improving quality of life for poor people in developing countries, plus, like, AI safety.

I think in some ways, I think people think of, like, EA as, like,

a weird umbrella for like those three things.

And then those three things are basically like professional communities pursuing like a kind of well-defined goal.

But I think EA is more like a way of looking at the world and a way of thinking about the good.

And I think you can take

An EA approach to cause areas that are in some sense more parochial than the big three EA cause areas.

I think you can absolutely take an EA approach to US policy from the perspective of thinking about the welfare of US citizens, doing rigorous cost effectiveness analysis of what policies actually help and don't help.

And a lot of people do.

And then I think there are like there is EA as a generator of like new cause areas that sort of could get added to the canon.

And I think right now there's like a bunch of fertile ground with like.

Could EA be a force that helps society prepare for radical change by advanced AI?

Where AI safety is one big important thing there, but there might be a range of other issues and you might want to prioritize some of those based on your values and your sense of how things will play out.