Outsider here! I dropped out of grad school years ago and was never really involved in the “elite” academic or professional scene to which most EA members belong. The term “effective altruism” was familiar to me since my student days in the early ’10s, but I didn’t really know much about it until very recently (the whole OpenAI scandal brought it to my attention, and I decided to explore the philosophical roots of it all over the holiday).
Outsider here! I dropped out of grad school years ago and was never really involved in the “elite” academic or professional scene to which most EA members belong. The term “effective altruism” was familiar to me since my student days in the early ’10s, but I didn’t really know much about it until very recently (the whole OpenAI scandal brought it to my attention, and I decided to explore the philosophical roots of it all over the holiday).