I think it’s perfectly fine to call someone the founder of EA Norway—an organization—but I continue to believe it is inappropriate to call them the founder “of the Norwegian EA movement”. I don’t share your intuition that starting the first EA group in a region makes you the founder of the EA movement in that region. For example, I started the first LW group in the Spanish-speaking world but it would be bizarre to call me the “founder of the Spanish-speaking rationalist movement”. Expressions that seem more appropriate to me to convey what I take “founder” to be trying to communicate are “a key figure in the Norwegian EA movement” and “an early figure in the Norwegian EA movement”. Or you could just say “started the first Norwegian EA chapter” or “co-founded EA Norway”.
I’m happy to continue this discussion, but I also feel uneasy about diverting attention away from Eirik’s impressive accomplishment. The karma system and filtering algorithms have made my original comment more visible than I intended it to be.
I think it’s perfectly fine to call someone the founder of EA Norway—an organization—but I continue to believe it is inappropriate to call them the founder “of the Norwegian EA movement”. I don’t share your intuition that starting the first EA group in a region makes you the founder of the EA movement in that region. For example, I started the first LW group in the Spanish-speaking world but it would be bizarre to call me the “founder of the Spanish-speaking rationalist movement”. Expressions that seem more appropriate to me to convey what I take “founder” to be trying to communicate are “a key figure in the Norwegian EA movement” and “an early figure in the Norwegian EA movement”. Or you could just say “started the first Norwegian EA chapter” or “co-founded EA Norway”.
I’m happy to continue this discussion, but I also feel uneasy about diverting attention away from Eirik’s impressive accomplishment. The karma system and filtering algorithms have made my original comment more visible than I intended it to be.
The examples you provided are fine alternatives :+1: