In the example about careers, it could across that "do the normal thing" is a front for the more extreme thing. I think it's worth spelling out: different people do have actually different beliefs about what you should do here.

In the example about food, it's common that people assume I'm vegan because I serve vegan food for EA dinners. I'm not, and I don't want to create the impression that a specific diet is a required part of EA. (I should follow my own advice and flag this a little more clearly at my own dinners!)

Stuff I tell student organizers: Do more meta communication.

Represent the range of views that are in your group. If some people in your student group think “do the normal thing in university and explore your career options” and others think “drop out to urgently work on 2-person AI safety projects," represent to your group members that those are both views held in your group.

If you always serve vegan food, people will assume all EAs are vegan / you’re supposed to be vegan if you’re in EA. I suggest saying something like “We serve vegan food because that’s what works best for the combination of people in our group, but it’s not that everybody is vegan.”  About half the people in the EA survey are vegetarian or vegan.

I think the heads up was optional; thanks for doing it at all. But it felt weird that you included it in your comment, because a heads up to me doesn't really make a difference on the overall situation.

>FWIW I did send the CEA community health team a draft of this announcement.
Since you mention my team and you emailed me an FYI about 16 hours before this announcement went up, here's my opinion: don't hire someone with a fraud conviction for a finance or philanthropy role.

I thought the quiz was well made!

I came here and had the same thought!

I like how this model captures several different factors! Taste/enjoyment is another factor that I think is key for a lot of people here.

>Palisade, Apollo, METR, MATS, Tarbell 
For other readers who thought, "Wait, are those not getting CG funding?" Almost all of those orgs have been funded by CG, most within the last year. Maybe not at the level Scott's talking about though.

Other comments make me think the language wasn't a big factor, but trying to model what my college-aged self would have asked before hearing about EA: "what career will help other people the most"  / "what career will make the world a better place"

I wonder if some of this is that most people don't ask questions with "morally speaking" in the phrasing.