show me your role models who have directly improved the world, not just the people who have told others that they should
Iâm surprised to read this.
Although an important part of their job is thinking, some of those figures have founded organisations like Giving What We Can, 80,000 hours or GiveWell, which is actually (a lot of) doing.
Also, pledging to donate at least 10% of their income until they retire, thus saving several lives and helping thousands of people by preventing that they get terrible diseases is âimproving the world directlyâ rather than thinking. (Although that impact is probably neglegible compared what they achieved in other ways, it is still a lot of good).
I want to be clearâI donât think these people havenât achieved anything or done good, but e.g. 80,000 hoursâ impact is indirect rather than direct. Iâm not saying we shouldnât celebrate these people, but if we only focus on community building/âmeta level activity, then thereâs a risk EA ends up in a level of abstraction/âMLM kind of space. My point was I donât think we should only celebrate EAs who create public discourse and the infrastructure to support more people becoming (better) EAs.
Iâm surprised to read this. Although an important part of their job is thinking, some of those figures have founded organisations like Giving What We Can, 80,000 hours or GiveWell, which is actually (a lot of) doing. Also, pledging to donate at least 10% of their income until they retire, thus saving several lives and helping thousands of people by preventing that they get terrible diseases is âimproving the world directlyâ rather than thinking. (Although that impact is probably neglegible compared what they achieved in other ways, it is still a lot of good).
I want to be clearâI donât think these people havenât achieved anything or done good, but e.g. 80,000 hoursâ impact is indirect rather than direct. Iâm not saying we shouldnât celebrate these people, but if we only focus on community building/âmeta level activity, then thereâs a risk EA ends up in a level of abstraction/âMLM kind of space. My point was I donât think we should only celebrate EAs who create public discourse and the infrastructure to support more people becoming (better) EAs.