I’m still thinking about what is the best public for effective altruism, what should be the size of the movement and so on. But the first thing that comes to mind based on many recent discussions is that we need more people doing Earning to Give and doing good Outreach. People that aren’t like us can also do those things really well, so It’s seems good to reach out to them using a language that is slightly different than the one we normally use.
We should never stop talking about rationality. It’s a really important component of effective altruism.
“Combining empathy and rationality to have a greater positive impact” seems like a decent slogan for effective altruism. I think It’s desirable for EA to be automatically associate with both “empathy” and “rationality”. I think there aren’t many drawbacks to this, but I’m really open about it.
Yeah, “reason” might be an alternative for people that would understand rationality in an unintended (straw vulcan) way. “Prudence” maybe too, but it seems less specific.
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I’m still thinking about what is the best public for effective altruism, what should be the size of the movement and so on. But the first thing that comes to mind based on many recent discussions is that we need more people doing Earning to Give and doing good Outreach. People that aren’t like us can also do those things really well, so It’s seems good to reach out to them using a language that is slightly different than the one we normally use.
We should never stop talking about rationality. It’s a really important component of effective altruism.
“Combining empathy and rationality to have a greater positive impact” seems like a decent slogan for effective altruism. I think It’s desirable for EA to be automatically associate with both “empathy” and “rationality”. I think there aren’t many drawbacks to this, but I’m really open about it.
Yeah, “reason” might be an alternative for people that would understand rationality in an unintended (straw vulcan) way. “Prudence” maybe too, but it seems less specific.