“It often takes a fair bit of in-person communication for people to resolve any initial questions and the message to click.”
Is this the new ‘consensus’? What is it based on? I’ve heard some say on facebook that ususally people either get EA right away or they don’t end up getting it at all.
I’m pretty sure I’ve said something like that myself ;) However I don’t think that’s contradictory. Rather, I think there are 3 categories of people:
People who were sold on the ideas and often taking the actions before hearing about EA.
People who when they hear about EA are quite sceptical.
People who when they hear about EA have a more positive reaction than that.
What I’ve meant is that barely any people in the 2nd category end up as EAs. I base that partly on the fact that I don’t know of any such people (having asked others if they do, and knowing quite a few EAs myself). So the sentence you quoted was about the 3rd category of people.
I do think that the 1st category is larger than the 3rd based on the people I know about, which does reduce this aspect of the value of the project. However plausibly some of these people wouldn’t otherwise have found equally effective charities.
In my experience, it’s both! Some people are drawn to it right away, whereas others find it really unintuitive. And then, most people require some serious reflection before really getting involved, and this often happens through lots of conversations, though I think it could also happen via reading loads online or online communities.
“It often takes a fair bit of in-person communication for people to resolve any initial questions and the message to click.”
Is this the new ‘consensus’? What is it based on? I’ve heard some say on facebook that ususally people either get EA right away or they don’t end up getting it at all.
I’m pretty sure I’ve said something like that myself ;) However I don’t think that’s contradictory. Rather, I think there are 3 categories of people:
People who were sold on the ideas and often taking the actions before hearing about EA.
People who when they hear about EA are quite sceptical.
People who when they hear about EA have a more positive reaction than that.
What I’ve meant is that barely any people in the 2nd category end up as EAs. I base that partly on the fact that I don’t know of any such people (having asked others if they do, and knowing quite a few EAs myself). So the sentence you quoted was about the 3rd category of people.
I do think that the 1st category is larger than the 3rd based on the people I know about, which does reduce this aspect of the value of the project. However plausibly some of these people wouldn’t otherwise have found equally effective charities.
In my experience, it’s both! Some people are drawn to it right away, whereas others find it really unintuitive. And then, most people require some serious reflection before really getting involved, and this often happens through lots of conversations, though I think it could also happen via reading loads online or online communities.