repligate on EA's power trap: optimizing for legible status eventually bites you
repligate · x · 2026-09-22
repligate agrees with Scott Alexander's observation that EA has optimized for power, and argues that chasing legible status beyond what flows from the value you create eventually backfires: power makes you a target, your credentials look inadequate when judged outside your adapted niche, and peer approval is a seductive but corrupting metric. Alexander's quoted post cites EA's lifestyle-culture controversies damaging credibility with mainstream voters as a real cost of intellectual freedom.
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