I think your description omits a key factor. GWWC’s brand is not just
an organisation which strongly encourages people to donate 10% of their income to the most effective organisations
but
an organisation which strongly encourages people to donate 10% of their income to the most effective anti-poverty organisations
Global poverty is all over the website, it’s the core of GWWC’s presentations, it’s explicitly mentioned in the pledge. I think any neutral outsider, having spent 10 minutes on the website, would say that GWWC was an anti-poverty (and disease, etc.) organization—and be very surprised to hear that it was also anti-robot, and anti-bacon!
Nor do the other factors you mention sound very convincing. The other EA organizations could hire someone to do outreach—they could even share the same person. And the ‘existing community’ argument is a misnomer. Firstly, there already is an existing community—I’m sure we could easily whip up a bunch of EAs to sign the new pledge. But you cannot say that the existing GWWC community could play such a role, as it is not a group of people who have taken the proposed pledge—it is a community of people who took the old pledge, which is quite different, many of whom seem quite unhappy about the change!
I think your description omits a key factor. GWWC’s brand is not just
but
Global poverty is all over the website, it’s the core of GWWC’s presentations, it’s explicitly mentioned in the pledge. I think any neutral outsider, having spent 10 minutes on the website, would say that GWWC was an anti-poverty (and disease, etc.) organization—and be very surprised to hear that it was also anti-robot, and anti-bacon!
Nor do the other factors you mention sound very convincing. The other EA organizations could hire someone to do outreach—they could even share the same person. And the ‘existing community’ argument is a misnomer. Firstly, there already is an existing community—I’m sure we could easily whip up a bunch of EAs to sign the new pledge. But you cannot say that the existing GWWC community could play such a role, as it is not a group of people who have taken the proposed pledge—it is a community of people who took the old pledge, which is quite different, many of whom seem quite unhappy about the change!