Fair thoughts, thanks for the input! A few responses here:
>>I was a bit surprised by the “steep dropoff after graduation” claim. I think this is very likely to be true, but this could give the—very false—impression that there are many motivated students in the movement, which is not what I’ve observed.
I do think there are a lot of motivated students in the movement though, particularly in the US and UK (I’m less sure about other countries). Though perhaps to your point, even in these countries I think these students tend not to actually be getting out there that much, e.g. probably not attending protests, and are probably instead doing more insular activities on their campuses like discussion groups and vegan cooking. This was the case at least for my own student group.
Definitely would be helpful to have more data here! I’m just speaking off of impressions right now.
>>However, perhaps its implementation might be… too early?
Possibly. To push back on this though, I do think that sometimes a given campaign will always just seem too difficult/too early until it is done, and that we might as well just start working on it now.
Thanks for your organizing work! The network you describe sounds cool and I hope it’s going really well. I think you should consider writing more about it in an EA Forum post or something (or please link me to one if you’ve already done this!). I hadn’t heard of it before, and I think it’d be helpful for more people to be thinking about this sort of thing.
Fair thoughts, thanks for the input! A few responses here:
>>I was a bit surprised by the “steep dropoff after graduation” claim. I think this is very likely to be true, but this could give the—very false—impression that there are many motivated students in the movement, which is not what I’ve observed.
I do think there are a lot of motivated students in the movement though, particularly in the US and UK (I’m less sure about other countries). Though perhaps to your point, even in these countries I think these students tend not to actually be getting out there that much, e.g. probably not attending protests, and are probably instead doing more insular activities on their campuses like discussion groups and vegan cooking. This was the case at least for my own student group.
Definitely would be helpful to have more data here! I’m just speaking off of impressions right now.
>>However, perhaps its implementation might be… too early?
Possibly. To push back on this though, I do think that sometimes a given campaign will always just seem too difficult/too early until it is done, and that we might as well just start working on it now.
Thanks for your organizing work! The network you describe sounds cool and I hope it’s going really well. I think you should consider writing more about it in an EA Forum post or something (or please link me to one if you’ve already done this!). I hadn’t heard of it before, and I think it’d be helpful for more people to be thinking about this sort of thing.