I basically divide my (classically parsed as “altruistic”) into two buckets: helping the world, and making my community a nice place to live. I do the former because I want to help people. I do the latter fairly selfishly (which seems fine)
When I help out my local community, I help the parts of it I actually use—the local Less Wrong and Sunday Assembly communities. I sometimes clean up parks and similar things because physical labor makes me feel good.
This isn’t “Effective Altruism” and shouldn’t be considered such, but I do think EA people should consider doing such things if they’re not already. (i.e. giving back to whatever communities they actually reap benefits from, in a pay-it-forward-passion)
I basically divide my (classically parsed as “altruistic”) into two buckets: helping the world, and making my community a nice place to live. I do the former because I want to help people. I do the latter fairly selfishly (which seems fine)
When I help out my local community, I help the parts of it I actually use—the local Less Wrong and Sunday Assembly communities. I sometimes clean up parks and similar things because physical labor makes me feel good.
This isn’t “Effective Altruism” and shouldn’t be considered such, but I do think EA people should consider doing such things if they’re not already. (i.e. giving back to whatever communities they actually reap benefits from, in a pay-it-forward-passion)