I agree with the points you make. Additionally, I think it is easier to find EA’s among altruism-related-communities (e.g. climate change, factory farming, etc) rather than effective/logic-related-communities (e.g. philosophers, engineers, scientists). This is because people willing to devote their career to altruistic causes are rare, while quite a lot of people think and reason logically.
Also, I’d love to know of any surveys or research that tries to find correlations between what EAs were doing pre-knowledge-of-EA and post-knowledge-of-EA. Or, what are the opinions on EA among people from different industries or subject-of-study.
Hi Asaf,
I agree with the points you make. Additionally, I think it is easier to find EA’s among altruism-related-communities (e.g. climate change, factory farming, etc) rather than effective/logic-related-communities (e.g. philosophers, engineers, scientists). This is because people willing to devote their career to altruistic causes are rare, while quite a lot of people think and reason logically.
Also, I’d love to know of any surveys or research that tries to find correlations between what EAs were doing pre-knowledge-of-EA and post-knowledge-of-EA. Or, what are the opinions on EA among people from different industries or subject-of-study.