I don’t know about Jonas, but I like this more from the self-directed perspective of “I am less likely to confuse myself about my own goals if I call it talent development.”
Thanks! So, to check I understand you, do you think when we engage in what we’ve traditionally called ‘community building’ we should basically just be doing talent development?
In other words, your theory of change for EA is talent development + direct work = arrival at our ultimate vision of a radically better world?[1]
E.g., a waypoint described by MacAskill as something like the below:
”(i) ending all obvious grievous contemporary harms, like war, violence and unnecessary suffering; (ii) reducing existential risk down to a very low level; (iii) securing a deliberative process for humanity as a whole, so that we make sufficient moral progress before embarking on potentially-irreversible actions like space settlement.”
I don’t know about Jonas, but I like this more from the self-directed perspective of “I am less likely to confuse myself about my own goals if I call it talent development.”
Thanks! So, to check I understand you, do you think when we engage in what we’ve traditionally called ‘community building’ we should basically just be doing talent development?
In other words, your theory of change for EA is talent development + direct work = arrival at our ultimate vision of a radically better world?[1]
Personally, I think we need a far more comprehensive social change portfolio.
E.g., a waypoint described by MacAskill as something like the below:
”(i) ending all obvious grievous contemporary harms, like war, violence and unnecessary suffering; (ii) reducing existential risk down to a very low level; (iii) securing a deliberative process for humanity as a whole, so that we make sufficient moral progress before embarking on potentially-irreversible actions like space settlement.”
Yes, this.