Hi Impala, I’m sorry you feel this way! I assure you we’re actually all nice and not at all scary, so do feel free to contact us to discuss whatever you’d like.
I don’t know precisely what you’re talking about, but I don’t know of anyone you might be talking about as ‘prominent EAs’ who are both members of Giving What We Can and not donating. There are definitely people like Paul Christiano who support saving to donate later, because they think that the savings rate at the moment is unusually high and we’re currently in an unusually good position to learn more, so that donating in the future will be even more valuable than now. But Paul is not a member, for that very reason.
Like I said to Gregory, I am limited in what I can say without violating confidences, but I personally wouldn’t find saying other things scary if it’s anonymous. Is there an anonymous way to send messages to you which doesn’t reveal my email (which contains the username I use around the Web)?
Hi Impala, I’m sorry you feel this way! I assure you we’re actually all nice and not at all scary, so do feel free to contact us to discuss whatever you’d like. I don’t know precisely what you’re talking about, but I don’t know of anyone you might be talking about as ‘prominent EAs’ who are both members of Giving What We Can and not donating. There are definitely people like Paul Christiano who support saving to donate later, because they think that the savings rate at the moment is unusually high and we’re currently in an unusually good position to learn more, so that donating in the future will be even more valuable than now. But Paul is not a member, for that very reason.
Like I said to Gregory, I am limited in what I can say without violating confidences, but I personally wouldn’t find saying other things scary if it’s anonymous. Is there an anonymous way to send messages to you which doesn’t reveal my email (which contains the username I use around the Web)?
Impala, you can trivially set up a new gmail account to send anonymous email.
Upvoted for morally admirable concern for people’s confidences.
This is starting to sound like it would be scary for me. I think Hauke may have made an anonymous feedback form for this purpose. I’ll ask him.