I see generally this may be good, but there are cases that require more socially aware education to be discussed. Additionally, this discussion seems to be from a view that is unfortunately only negatively affect or restrict half of the humans; it seems to be easy for the humans who are not affected to discuss on restricting; the barrier is unfairly lower unfortunately by human nature. I do think writers need to bear some responsibility for knowledge/background learning

"democratic culture" -> could you elaborate why this is a cultural thing?

I take it as about equality

I am surprised and disappointed that this got downvoted; this comment to me is a perfectly reasonable and respectful discussion

I think it is interesting to view abortion as killing "lives"; the suffering for fetus is very low if aborted, and suffering for the human is very high if not. Abortion right is quite essential for equality in my opinion.

Personal take - it feels to me MZ is more about profits (given recent events as well), and if something does not give back a monetary return, I doubt it would attract him

I am not completely sure on the emphasizing of the community building based on fun part -  that might be what fundamentally I view differently on; I believe people should best be united by passion/values and the things to do, the other stuff seems a bit for entertaining/personal/socializing purposes (and harder to be unified on), less for "a community with a goal" type of organizations (which could def happen in smaller subsets/scale) - people who are passionate about the values will stick around anyways is my take/current thought

On being cheerful though- that part I agree. I like posts celebrating progress as well

I do feel like the issues we are addressing might not be always changing frequently as we have not solved many things yet, but what could be new is the solution to solve them

Personal take: with the kind of work EA is mainly about (practice altruism, reduce suffering, tackle serious issues), it is very hard to be very "fun" about it. I don't think it is about perfect grammar (I am sure you can still have grammar mistakes while being serious), but it is more about the "boundary" of "fun" and how sometimes the non-serious tone is correlated with non-serious attitude towards certain topics, and that may not be helpful to address those topics.

I think you call out a really good problem, I did not downvote, but I may have an idea of why it was downvoted. The problem somewhat do exist, also with race and gender, but the issue might not be resume or hiring strategy (target schools) alone

Agree/support with the idea/a lot of these points, and also 4 particularly; for "1. Shouldn't there be an academic discipline specifically dedicated to the phenomenon of suffering?" I have been thinking how exactly economic disparity contribute to suffering risks, and if this is one reliable causal reason for systematic crime