I think I disagree with this perspective because, to me, the doing is the identity in a certain importance sense.
Like I think everyone GWWC Pledger should reasonably be expected to be identified as an EA, even if they don’t claim the self identity. If MacAskill or Moskovitiz’s behaviour changed 0% apart from they stopped self-identifying as an EA, I still think it’d make sense to consider them EAs.
What really annoys me with the ‘EA = Specific EA Community’ is takes like this or this—the ideas part of EA is what matters. If CEA and OpenPhil disbanded I’d still be donating to effective charities because of the ideas involved, and the ‘self-identification/​specific community lineage’ explanation cannot really explain this imho.
(p.s. not trying to go in too hard on you David, I was torn about whether to respond to this thread or @Karthik Tadepalli’s above. Perhaps we should meet and have a chat about it sometime if you think that’s productive at all?)
I think I disagree with this perspective because, to me, the doing is the identity in a certain importance sense.
Like I think everyone GWWC Pledger should reasonably be expected to be identified as an EA, even if they don’t claim the self identity. If MacAskill or Moskovitiz’s behaviour changed 0% apart from they stopped self-identifying as an EA, I still think it’d make sense to consider them EAs.
What really annoys me with the ‘EA = Specific EA Community’ is takes like this or this—the ideas part of EA is what matters. If CEA and OpenPhil disbanded I’d still be donating to effective charities because of the ideas involved, and the ‘self-identification/​specific community lineage’ explanation cannot really explain this imho.
(p.s. not trying to go in too hard on you David, I was torn about whether to respond to this thread or @Karthik Tadepalli’s above. Perhaps we should meet and have a chat about it sometime if you think that’s productive at all?)