Rob Wiblin

Yeah, yeah.

And it can be very dangerous and culty.

And I mean, there are a lot of reasons to worry about it.

But I do think there is just a large contingent of EAs that are like me in wanting some sort of spiritual grounding.

Like Joe Carlson's blog is like extremely popular with hardcore EAs.

It's not like a generically popular blog.

It's like it's like reasonably popular, but it's just like there are a number of people who are like, oh, wow, this is like really nourishing something in me that I like didn't realize I needed.

I actually think that I thought of myself as an extremely unspiritual person.

I had a lot of disdain for spirituality when I was 20.

And so for me, the age thing has gone the other way.

I think I want more and more of a religion-shaped thing in my life as I age.

And when I think about why, I think it's because when I was 20, I had like unrealistic aspirations for my worldly projects.

Like I like, you know, I was like, I guess by that point, I'd already been an EA for like six or seven years.

But like I was just starting off like trying to do EA things in the world.

And I had this like sense that like, you know, this is obviously correct.

This is obviously great.

Like everyone who's like good and reasonable will like get on board with it and like will just like

solve poverty and solve factory farming.

I wouldn't have exactly said this stuff, but I just had that inner vibe.

And I would go around being like, have you heard the good word about EA?