If you’re in San Francisco, with CFAR, then there are definitely events there, which will be announced on Facebook or here. If you’re in Chicago, there are people there, and I’m not sure whether they meet.
For what to contribute, here is one collection of activities.
For foundational articles, if you click More on Effective Altruism in the sidebar, you will see a bunch. To pick 5: Efficiency Measures Miss the Point, Efficient Charity,- Do Unto Others, To Save the World… Go Work on Wall Street, Your Dollar Goes Further Overseas, Preventing Human Extinction.
It’d be good to know what vocabulary, culture and causes are distant, to figure out whether there’s some divide that’s fundamental, or it’s just the way we talk about things. EAs have usually thought about the causes a lot, so those views there are fairly stable, but people often aren’t very careful about culture and vocabulary, so that could have a lot of room to change.
Hey AstClaire. Tahnks for your thoughts.
If you’re in San Francisco, with CFAR, then there are definitely events there, which will be announced on Facebook or here. If you’re in Chicago, there are people there, and I’m not sure whether they meet.
For what to contribute, here is one collection of activities. For foundational articles, if you click More on Effective Altruism in the sidebar, you will see a bunch. To pick 5: Efficiency Measures Miss the Point, Efficient Charity,- Do Unto Others, To Save the World… Go Work on Wall Street, Your Dollar Goes Further Overseas, Preventing Human Extinction.
It’d be good to know what vocabulary, culture and causes are distant, to figure out whether there’s some divide that’s fundamental, or it’s just the way we talk about things. EAs have usually thought about the causes a lot, so those views there are fairly stable, but people often aren’t very careful about culture and vocabulary, so that could have a lot of room to change.