Good point. The person in world 2 is, as you say, doing two things:
a) They start doing altruistic things right away.
b) They focus on convincing others to join the EA movement, rather than on doing object-level altruistic work.
a) and b) are obviously unrelated in the sense that you can do a) without doing b), and vice versa. However, the combiation of doing both a) and b) is potentially quite powerful, as you point out.
An obvious (minor) caveat is, however, that succesful object-level altruistic works probably are necessary in order to attract people to the EA movement. You need something to show them, as it were. Hence all effective altruists devoting all of their time to recruiting new effective altruists is probably not the most efficient way of recruiting new effective altruists. That said, I agree with the general point that effective altruists probably should spend more time convincing others to join the EA movement.
Good point. The person in world 2 is, as you say, doing two things:
a) They start doing altruistic things right away. b) They focus on convincing others to join the EA movement, rather than on doing object-level altruistic work.
a) and b) are obviously unrelated in the sense that you can do a) without doing b), and vice versa. However, the combiation of doing both a) and b) is potentially quite powerful, as you point out.
An obvious (minor) caveat is, however, that succesful object-level altruistic works probably are necessary in order to attract people to the EA movement. You need something to show them, as it were. Hence all effective altruists devoting all of their time to recruiting new effective altruists is probably not the most efficient way of recruiting new effective altruists. That said, I agree with the general point that effective altruists probably should spend more time convincing others to join the EA movement.