This is similar to how I describe effective altruism to those whom I introduce to the idea. I’m not in academia, and so I mostly introduce it to people who aren’t intellectuals. However, I can trace some of the features of your more rigorous definition in the one I’ve been using lately. It’s: ” ‘effective altruism’ is a community and movement focused on using science, evidence, and reason to try solving the world’s biggest/most important problems”. It’s kind of clunky, and it’s imperfect, but it’s what I’ve replaced “to do the most good” with, which generically stated presents the understandable problems you went over above.
This is similar to how I describe effective altruism to those whom I introduce to the idea. I’m not in academia, and so I mostly introduce it to people who aren’t intellectuals. However, I can trace some of the features of your more rigorous definition in the one I’ve been using lately. It’s: ” ‘effective altruism’ is a community and movement focused on using science, evidence, and reason to try solving the world’s biggest/most important problems”. It’s kind of clunky, and it’s imperfect, but it’s what I’ve replaced “to do the most good” with, which generically stated presents the understandable problems you went over above.