How do EA’s in SF think about local civic action and altruism? That seems a priori like a place with A) a lot of EAs and B) a place with LOTs of local problems. Here’s a good Atlantic article that’s worth reading in full on the problems of SF: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/
And for reference here’s a post I penned recently in response to the call for EA critiques that emphasizes the importance of local as well as global altruistic action: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LnuuN7zuBSZvEo845/why-the-ea-aversion-to-local-altruistic-action
How do EA’s in SF think about local civic action and altruism? That seems a priori like a place with A) a lot of EAs and B) a place with LOTs of local problems. Here’s a good Atlantic article that’s worth reading in full on the problems of SF: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/
And for reference here’s a post I penned recently in response to the call for EA critiques that emphasizes the importance of local as well as global altruistic action: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LnuuN7zuBSZvEo845/why-the-ea-aversion-to-local-altruistic-action