My EA origins story is pretty boring! I was a research assistant for a Philosophy professor who included a unit on EA in her Environmental Ethics course. That was my first exposure to the ideas of EA (although obviously I had exposure to Peter Singer previously). As a result, I added Doing Good Better to my reading list, and I read it in December 2016 (halfway through my first year of law school). I was pretty immediately convinced of its core ideas.
I then joined the Harvard Law School EA group, which was a really cool group at the time. In fact, it’s somewhat weird that a school of HLS’s size (ca. 1600 students) was able to sustain such a group, so I was very fortunate in that way.
My EA origins story is pretty boring! I was a research assistant for a Philosophy professor who included a unit on EA in her Environmental Ethics course. That was my first exposure to the ideas of EA (although obviously I had exposure to Peter Singer previously). As a result, I added Doing Good Better to my reading list, and I read it in December 2016 (halfway through my first year of law school). I was pretty immediately convinced of its core ideas.
I then joined the Harvard Law School EA group, which was a really cool group at the time. In fact, it’s somewhat weird that a school of HLS’s size (ca. 1600 students) was able to sustain such a group, so I was very fortunate in that way.
That wasn’t so boring.