How pithy do thousands of us really need be? This is a serious question. I’m aware that the Centre of Effective Altruism is trying to manage the public image of effective altruism out of Oxford, so they care about terminology, what with the power of a few words can have, and such. However, is there a risk in how creative the rest of us in how we refer to ourselves, with another sensible phrase aside from ‘effective altruist’? I don’t know how much of how effective altruism is perceived by the outside public is generated what most of us do uncoordinated across social media, in public, for presentations, etc.
“Effectiveness-minded altruist” has the right meaning, but it’s not very pithy.
“Do-bester” might have the inverse problem.
How pithy do thousands of us really need be? This is a serious question. I’m aware that the Centre of Effective Altruism is trying to manage the public image of effective altruism out of Oxford, so they care about terminology, what with the power of a few words can have, and such. However, is there a risk in how creative the rest of us in how we refer to ourselves, with another sensible phrase aside from ‘effective altruist’? I don’t know how much of how effective altruism is perceived by the outside public is generated what most of us do uncoordinated across social media, in public, for presentations, etc.