Absolutely. I’m exactly in that boat—I became convinced of some basic EA principles after reading Singer’s work in 1st year uni last year but I don’t think I would have committed to donating a large chunk of my salary and stuck to it for instance if GWWC didn’t exist. I wouldn’t be here if the community hadn’t made it so tractable. I also was initially skeptical of the longtermist perspective—had EA been presented to me in terms other than the power law distribution of global health charity effectiveness it’s also much less likely I’d be here (I’m now a longtermist :P)
Absolutely. I’m exactly in that boat—I became convinced of some basic EA principles after reading Singer’s work in 1st year uni last year but I don’t think I would have committed to donating a large chunk of my salary and stuck to it for instance if GWWC didn’t exist. I wouldn’t be here if the community hadn’t made it so tractable. I also was initially skeptical of the longtermist perspective—had EA been presented to me in terms other than the power law distribution of global health charity effectiveness it’s also much less likely I’d be here (I’m now a longtermist :P)