I remember Founders Pledge saying something about this before, they work with a lot of startup founders so they often take the existing priorities of people peripheral to EA as given. They have other cause reports like this.
Just to clarify, at FP we don’t take existing priorities/preferences as a given, but we of course do take them into account to some extent when making recommendations (if only because otherwise nobody would follow those recommendations!). We currently use something called the value-discovery approach, which is about asking members about the underlying values driving their preferences (e.g. do you care about people living in the future?), and then making cause/charity recommendations based on those rather than on cause/charity preferences themselves. We also spend quite some time on educating our community on EA/effective giving principles, e.g. this is a main focus of our Programmes team.
I remember Founders Pledge saying something about this before, they work with a lot of startup founders so they often take the existing priorities of people peripheral to EA as given. They have other cause reports like this.
Just to clarify, at FP we don’t take existing priorities/preferences as a given, but we of course do take them into account to some extent when making recommendations (if only because otherwise nobody would follow those recommendations!). We currently use something called the value-discovery approach, which is about asking members about the underlying values driving their preferences (e.g. do you care about people living in the future?), and then making cause/charity recommendations based on those rather than on cause/charity preferences themselves. We also spend quite some time on educating our community on EA/effective giving principles, e.g. this is a main focus of our Programmes team.