In the EA community, it’s somewhat common to use “effective” in a jargon-y sense to mean “effectively improving the world”, but that’s not at all the standard meaning of “effective”. “Effective crypto” sounds like crypto that works really well; “effective thesis” sounds like a thesis that is persuasive, well-reasoned, and successful. In general, I think “impactful” would be better for conveying the meaning of “effectively improving the world”. I don’t think renaming “EffectiveCrypto.org” would be worthwhile, but I’m curious about your thoughts about naming it that.
In the EA community, it’s somewhat common to use “effective” in a jargon-y sense to mean “effectively improving the world”, but that’s not at all the standard meaning of “effective”. “Effective crypto” sounds like crypto that works really well; “effective thesis” sounds like a thesis that is persuasive, well-reasoned, and successful. In general, I think “impactful” would be better for conveying the meaning of “effectively improving the world”. I don’t think renaming “EffectiveCrypto.org” would be worthwhile, but I’m curious about your thoughts about naming it that.
Out of all the suggestions, this seemed the least bad one. If you have a better suggestion, we might rename it!
I think it’s pretty good. I don’t think it’s that big of a problem that it may be a bit initially confusing.
It’s nice that “effective crypto” (like “effective thesis”) ties to effective altruism. “Impactful” doesn’t do that.
Oh no! I just named my project “Effective Developers”