EA is an evolving movement, but the reasons for prioritizing violence and poor governance in the developing world seem weak. It’s certainly altruistic and the amount of suffering it addresses is enormous. However, the world is in such a sad state of affairs, that I don’t think such a complex and unexplored will compete with charities addressing basic needs like alleviating poverty or even OpenPhil’s current agenda of prison reform and factory farm suffering. That said, you could start the exploring. Isn’t that how the other causes became mainstream within the EA movement?
I’d be happy if the EA movement became interested in this, just as I’d be happy if the Democratic Party did. But my point was, the label EA means nothing to me. I follow my own views, and it doesn’t matter to me what this community thinks of it. Just as you’re free to follow your own views, regardless of EA.
EA is an evolving movement, but the reasons for prioritizing violence and poor governance in the developing world seem weak. It’s certainly altruistic and the amount of suffering it addresses is enormous. However, the world is in such a sad state of affairs, that I don’t think such a complex and unexplored will compete with charities addressing basic needs like alleviating poverty or even OpenPhil’s current agenda of prison reform and factory farm suffering. That said, you could start the exploring. Isn’t that how the other causes became mainstream within the EA movement?
I’d be happy if the EA movement became interested in this, just as I’d be happy if the Democratic Party did. But my point was, the label EA means nothing to me. I follow my own views, and it doesn’t matter to me what this community thinks of it. Just as you’re free to follow your own views, regardless of EA.