I am here to vouch for Konstantin. He posted in the main EA Facebook group about a potential cause: decreasing a sense of national identity, or increasing global sense of identity, among persons, particularly in developed nations. It seems a potentially important cause, as there are many ways reducing barriers to global empathy would increase the effectiveness of altruism. For example, more donations to global development rather than local charity, easing tensions around migration, making polities more likely to warmly receive immigrants, and other corollaries to Peter Singer’s Drowning Child in the Pond argument.
How to go about pursuing such a case, whether various interventions are either neglected or tractable, and how it compares in explicit and/or quantitative estimates to other ways of doing good is a discussion I think better suited for this platform than Facebook. I am pleased to see Konstantin has received a warm reception here.
I am here to vouch for Konstantin. He posted in the main EA Facebook group about a potential cause: decreasing a sense of national identity, or increasing global sense of identity, among persons, particularly in developed nations. It seems a potentially important cause, as there are many ways reducing barriers to global empathy would increase the effectiveness of altruism. For example, more donations to global development rather than local charity, easing tensions around migration, making polities more likely to warmly receive immigrants, and other corollaries to Peter Singer’s Drowning Child in the Pond argument.
How to go about pursuing such a case, whether various interventions are either neglected or tractable, and how it compares in explicit and/or quantitative estimates to other ways of doing good is a discussion I think better suited for this platform than Facebook. I am pleased to see Konstantin has received a warm reception here.