Minor point, but Iāve seen big tent EA as referring to applying effectiveness techniques on any charity. Then maybe broad current EA causes could be called the middle-sized tent. Then just GCR/ālongtermism could be called the small tent (which 80k already largely pivoted to years ago, at least considering their impact multipliers). Then just AI could be the very small tent.
(Tangent: ābig tent EAā originally referred to encouraging a broad set of views among EAs while ensuring EA is presented as a question, but semantic drift I suppose...)
Thanks! I wasnāt sure the best terminology to use because I would never have described 80K as ācause agnosticā or ācause impartialā and ābig tentā or āmulti-causeā felt like the closest gesture to what theyāve been.
Minor point, but Iāve seen big tent EA as referring to applying effectiveness techniques on any charity. Then maybe broad current EA causes could be called the middle-sized tent. Then just GCR/ālongtermism could be called the small tent (which 80k already largely pivoted to years ago, at least considering their impact multipliers). Then just AI could be the very small tent.
(Tangent: ābig tent EAā originally referred to encouraging a broad set of views among EAs while ensuring EA is presented as a question, but semantic drift I suppose...)
I was referring to this earlier academic article. Iāve also heard of discussion along a similar vein in the early days of EA.
Thanks! I wasnāt sure the best terminology to use because I would never have described 80K as ācause agnosticā or ācause impartialā and ābig tentā or āmulti-causeā felt like the closest gesture to what theyāve been.