What does it mean for the EA movement to endorse something? If that just means that I should say cause-specific effective altruism is a good thing, then okay, I hereby declare that cause-specific effective altruism is a good thing. But if you mean that I should spend my limited time campaigning to convince people in causes like the arts to focus on more effective interventions within their own cause, then I think it’s pretty clear that I should not do that.
Michael, I’ll clarify what actions from the EA community I am specifically I am making a case for. I am arguing two things:
1) people who are already invested in EA outreach ought to consider strategies that reach and activate people invested in specific domains; and
2) people who are invested in EA in general, but not in EA outreach specifically, ought to recognize the value of 1).
Now, those “ought tos” are of course contingent upon your agreement with the specific arguments and assumptions that I lay out in the piece. But I am not trying to convince you, specifically, to campaign for domain-specific EA except to the extent that you’re campaigning for EA already and not 100% successful in those efforts.
What does it mean for the EA movement to endorse something? If that just means that I should say cause-specific effective altruism is a good thing, then okay, I hereby declare that cause-specific effective altruism is a good thing. But if you mean that I should spend my limited time campaigning to convince people in causes like the arts to focus on more effective interventions within their own cause, then I think it’s pretty clear that I should not do that.
Michael, I’ll clarify what actions from the EA community I am specifically I am making a case for. I am arguing two things:
1) people who are already invested in EA outreach ought to consider strategies that reach and activate people invested in specific domains; and
2) people who are invested in EA in general, but not in EA outreach specifically, ought to recognize the value of 1).
Now, those “ought tos” are of course contingent upon your agreement with the specific arguments and assumptions that I lay out in the piece. But I am not trying to convince you, specifically, to campaign for domain-specific EA except to the extent that you’re campaigning for EA already and not 100% successful in those efforts.