Thanks Siebe—while I certainly agree that we don’t take the most extreme form of effective altruism, I don’t think it’s actually as focused on narrow Effective Giving as you suggest. We used that language in the original write up because we wanted it to be accessible to a non EA audience. But if you look at the language of the actual description (Nick posted it above), we took that from effectivealtruism.org, and it actually focuses pretty broadly on trying to do good, not just on donating.
But as we mention, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, I don’t think this research is at all the end of the story. We’ve been working on a follow-up study that includes cause neutrality, but it would be great to see people study similar questions on more extreme forms of effective altruism, and maybe even include an element of the community.
Thanks Siebe—while I certainly agree that we don’t take the most extreme form of effective altruism, I don’t think it’s actually as focused on narrow Effective Giving as you suggest. We used that language in the original write up because we wanted it to be accessible to a non EA audience. But if you look at the language of the actual description (Nick posted it above), we took that from effectivealtruism.org, and it actually focuses pretty broadly on trying to do good, not just on donating.
But as we mention, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, I don’t think this research is at all the end of the story. We’ve been working on a follow-up study that includes cause neutrality, but it would be great to see people study similar questions on more extreme forms of effective altruism, and maybe even include an element of the community.