I would love to see other more targeted and ambitious efforts to influence others where the KPI isn’t the number of highly-engaged EAs created.
+1, EA is a philosophical movement as well as a professional and social community.
I agree with this post that it can be useful to spread the philosophical ideas to people who will never be a part of the professional and social community. My sense from talking to, for example, senior professionals who have been convinced to reallocate some of their work to EA-priority causes is that this can be extremely valuable. Or, I’ve heard some people say they value a highly-engaged EA far more than a semi-engaged person, but I think they are probably underweighting the value of mid-to-senior people who do not become full-blown community members but nevertheless are influenced put some of their substantial network and career capital towards important problems.
On a separate note, I perceive an extremely high overlap between the “professional” and “social” for the highly-engaged EA crowd. For example, my sense is that it’s fairly hard to get accepted to EA Global if your main EA activity is donating a large portion of your objectively-high-but-not-multimillionaire-level tech salary”, i.e. you must be a part of the professional community to get access to the social community. I think it would be good to [create more social spaces for EA non-dedicates](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aYifx3zd5R5N8bQ6o/ea-dedicates).
+1, EA is a philosophical movement as well as a professional and social community.
I agree with this post that it can be useful to spread the philosophical ideas to people who will never be a part of the professional and social community. My sense from talking to, for example, senior professionals who have been convinced to reallocate some of their work to EA-priority causes is that this can be extremely valuable. Or, I’ve heard some people say they value a highly-engaged EA far more than a semi-engaged person, but I think they are probably underweighting the value of mid-to-senior people who do not become full-blown community members but nevertheless are influenced put some of their substantial network and career capital towards important problems.
On a separate note, I perceive an extremely high overlap between the “professional” and “social” for the highly-engaged EA crowd. For example, my sense is that it’s fairly hard to get accepted to EA Global if your main EA activity is donating a large portion of your objectively-high-but-not-multimillionaire-level tech salary”, i.e. you must be a part of the professional community to get access to the social community. I think it would be good to [create more social spaces for EA non-dedicates](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aYifx3zd5R5N8bQ6o/ea-dedicates).