This may be off topic, and I’m only connected to EA community from reading online resources, and having attended one EA discussion on ‘diversity and inclusion in EA’, and one EA group hike locally—interesting people, but I didn’t make any real continuing connections, perhaps because I come from a different tradition.
One of my main college and later (independent, mostly WWW based , and continuing fields of study has been 'evolution of cooperation' and altruism from a biological and cultural evolutionary perspective which is slightly different from what most people think of as altruism. Also most of my effort devoted towards 'doing good better' has been in community groups dealing with poverty , health and substance abuse problems, and the environment. Many of those groups are not very effective. They have lots of goals, but usually at best only achieve a few of them.
I am paired with an accountability buddy and contacted her but really am not expecting anything—if something works out, fine, if it doesn’t , thats the way it is.
One of my goals which I may not achieve is to see what processes are effective and for who (similar to asking what medical treatments are effective and for who, or what college tracks are effective for people having a happy and productive life, and for who—i know people with all kinds of degrees and careers and relationships, and some are happy and some aren’t. This is a ‘matching problem’ as they say in fields like math and computer science.
I wonder if there is a way to find an accountability buddy who is an appropriate match—I think it means one needs to have compatible and complementary goals. (Stalin, Hitler , Churchhill and FDR from a utopian view were not matches made in heaven. )
This may be off topic, and I’m only connected to EA community from reading online resources, and having attended one EA discussion on ‘diversity and inclusion in EA’, and one EA group hike locally—interesting people, but I didn’t make any real continuing connections, perhaps because I come from a different tradition.
I am paired with an accountability buddy and contacted her but really am not expecting anything—if something works out, fine, if it doesn’t , thats the way it is.
One of my goals which I may not achieve is to see what processes are effective and for who (similar to asking what medical treatments are effective and for who, or what college tracks are effective for people having a happy and productive life, and for who—i know people with all kinds of degrees and careers and relationships, and some are happy and some aren’t.
This is a ‘matching problem’ as they say in fields like math and computer science.
I wonder if there is a way to find an accountability buddy who is an appropriate match—I think it means one needs to have compatible and complementary goals. (Stalin, Hitler , Churchhill and FDR from a utopian view were not matches made in heaven. )