Hello,
Does anyone have a current mapping of the EA ecosystem? Something that would include, for example:
current cause areas
current philosophic perspectives and debates
epistemics
geographic reach
main institutions
related institutions
membership/supporter numbers
forums of engagement like the EA forum
longtermism today
neartermism today
funding
longitudinal analysis of EAs intellectual and cause development
I am building off of Gidon’s earlier post on the exploratory obstacle. If I wanted a complete introduction to EA, does anyone have a document or website that they could point to? Please let me know if there should be anything else on that list to describe EA today!
Thanks for your help!
Not exactly what you are looking for, but here is an actual [metaphorical] map (although it could do with updating; it’s from Feb 2020):
Oh Wow, that’s a really fun idea. Thanks for sharing! It’s like someone was writing an EA fantasy series.
These might be useful for creating a map:
EAHub’s list of organisations: https://resources.eahub.org/learn/orgs and check if there’s any big projects that just aren’t in a status of an organization on EAColabs: https://www.impactcolabs.com
For concepts, pick the big stuff from the forum tags: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tags/all
Forums of engagement: https://resources.eahub.org/learn/connect
For some data on the community: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/effective-altruism-survey
Thanks Gidon! Would you think this is a useful exercise to try?
I think it does! It’s important in my opinion that there would be someone who can maintain the map over time, and that it would be easy to make changes to (e.g. if it’s an infographic then it can be made easy if it’s made in Canva)