I think an aspect of this may be the dearth of continuously updating social media. I have been reading about EA for some time but really went down the Internet rabbit hole on it today and looked for ways to remain engaged. I tried to find some Instagram pages to follow, for instance, but did not easily find any (or any links should they exist) for 80k, EA, or GWWC that either existed or had been continuously updated since 2016. I think this is a subject that should still be generating more interest and has a huge potential to, but it seems to be a bit disconnected from the mainstream in ways that could be remedied by a more effective social media strategy.
I’m interested in this question. I’ve made the decision to quit most social media, and instagram isn’t very popular in my friendgroup anyway. But I live in Silicon Valley, and I know people’s habits change fast. I really buy the thesis that there’s a large demographic of people who’d be interested in EA but would be much more likely to hear about it if they could discover / remain engaged with it on instagram.
Still, I’m not sure what it would look like. In my mind EA messages do poorly when they’re forced to fit into images. The arguments for EA don’t need to be wrapped in dense philosophy papers, but given the difficulty of conveying the ideas with fidelity, I don’t have high confidence that an instagram page would do a good job of it.
Edit: Wait, I think I got this tone wrong. I do want to state some level of skepticism coming in, but I’m genuinely really interested in responses to my skepticism and in ways of doing a good EA-aligned instagram account.
I think an aspect of this may be the dearth of continuously updating social media. I have been reading about EA for some time but really went down the Internet rabbit hole on it today and looked for ways to remain engaged. I tried to find some Instagram pages to follow, for instance, but did not easily find any (or any links should they exist) for 80k, EA, or GWWC that either existed or had been continuously updated since 2016. I think this is a subject that should still be generating more interest and has a huge potential to, but it seems to be a bit disconnected from the mainstream in ways that could be remedied by a more effective social media strategy.
I’m interested in this question. I’ve made the decision to quit most social media, and instagram isn’t very popular in my friendgroup anyway. But I live in Silicon Valley, and I know people’s habits change fast. I really buy the thesis that there’s a large demographic of people who’d be interested in EA but would be much more likely to hear about it if they could discover / remain engaged with it on instagram.
Still, I’m not sure what it would look like. In my mind EA messages do poorly when they’re forced to fit into images. The arguments for EA don’t need to be wrapped in dense philosophy papers, but given the difficulty of conveying the ideas with fidelity, I don’t have high confidence that an instagram page would do a good job of it.
Edit: Wait, I think I got this tone wrong. I do want to state some level of skepticism coming in, but I’m genuinely really interested in responses to my skepticism and in ways of doing a good EA-aligned instagram account.
Ben West was also interested. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/P2sprj2xEfT63wQqq/ea-art-neural-style-transfer-portraits