A core question for me is still, “Is EA’s main aim to grow to affect govt policy?”. This would be able to deal with problems that EA organisations work on at an incentives level such that that non-EAs would be properly motivated to solve problems that affect all our wellbeing.
In that sense, correcting an an externality is better than lobbying firms/consumers to ignore it (which is roughly what we currently do). Am I wrong here? If growth isn’t EA’s main aim, why not? Something doesn’t add up.
I suppose the best answer I can expect is “we don’t know that’s more effective” thanks to aaron who showed me how Givewell is starting to look at this . But at some level this will stop being true, if EA had 51% support then we could just vote throw the measures we wanted (some ethical nuances).
So the secondary question is, do we have any idea when this shift from lobbying individuals to lobbying/participating in govt ought to take place. How many EAs should exist in a country before they make a concerted effort to lobby directly. That seems a fairly crucial detail.
A core question for me is still, “Is EA’s main aim to grow to affect govt policy?”. This would be able to deal with problems that EA organisations work on at an incentives level such that that non-EAs would be properly motivated to solve problems that affect all our wellbeing.
In that sense, correcting an an externality is better than lobbying firms/consumers to ignore it (which is roughly what we currently do). Am I wrong here? If growth isn’t EA’s main aim, why not? Something doesn’t add up.
I suppose the best answer I can expect is “we don’t know that’s more effective” thanks to aaron who showed me how Givewell is starting to look at this . But at some level this will stop being true, if EA had 51% support then we could just vote throw the measures we wanted (some ethical nuances).
So the secondary question is, do we have any idea when this shift from lobbying individuals to lobbying/participating in govt ought to take place. How many EAs should exist in a country before they make a concerted effort to lobby directly. That seems a fairly crucial detail.