Thanks for specifying how you want answers delivered! This isnât about any one movement (itâs a meta-answer), but Iâll post it here because I think it points to action that you or someone else could take to resolve the question.
Rather than trying to think of all the movements/âgroups I can and filtering by âseems synergisticâ, Iâll try to break this question down.
Any group with which we share some common trait might have synergy; the number of common traits should correlate with the level of synergy.
Some traits of EA:
Cares about charity
Cares about career choice
Cares about using evidence
Cares about maximizing output/â being efficient
Cares about certain âneglectedâ groups: The global poor, farm/âwild animals, people in the future
Cosmopolitan, with a focus on the entire world/ââgrand strategyâ
Political lean toward economic conservatism and social liberalism
Charities themselves may not be huge fans of us if they see us as critical/ârivals, but people trying to donate are synergistic with us. Which groups of people spend a lot of time trying to donate? People with a lot of money, people planning their legacies, people who work as charitable consultants, etc.
You can do the same thing for each list item, and try to notice which groups fall into multiple categories or have âanti-categoriesâ they expressly donât fit:
Many Buddhists care about the global poor, cosmopolitanism, and charity.
Libertarians like efficiency, economic conservatism, and social liberalism.
College students like social liberalism, career choice, and cosmopolitanism (but arenât big on economic conservatism). And so on.
If you do wind up building a list in this way, you should share it on the Forum more generally! Iâve wanted a resource like this for a while but havenât had time to build it carefully.
Thanks for specifying how you want answers delivered! This isnât about any one movement (itâs a meta-answer), but Iâll post it here because I think it points to action that you or someone else could take to resolve the question.
Rather than trying to think of all the movements/âgroups I can and filtering by âseems synergisticâ, Iâll try to break this question down.
Any group with which we share some common trait might have synergy; the number of common traits should correlate with the level of synergy.
Some traits of EA:
Cares about charity
Cares about career choice
Cares about using evidence
Cares about maximizing output/â being efficient
Cares about certain âneglectedâ groups: The global poor, farm/âwild animals, people in the future
Cosmopolitan, with a focus on the entire world/ââgrand strategyâ
Political lean toward economic conservatism and social liberalism
Charities themselves may not be huge fans of us if they see us as critical/ârivals, but people trying to donate are synergistic with us. Which groups of people spend a lot of time trying to donate? People with a lot of money, people planning their legacies, people who work as charitable consultants, etc.
You can do the same thing for each list item, and try to notice which groups fall into multiple categories or have âanti-categoriesâ they expressly donât fit:
Many Buddhists care about the global poor, cosmopolitanism, and charity.
Libertarians like efficiency, economic conservatism, and social liberalism.
College students like social liberalism, career choice, and cosmopolitanism (but arenât big on economic conservatism). And so on.
If you do wind up building a list in this way, you should share it on the Forum more generally! Iâve wanted a resource like this for a while but havenât had time to build it carefully.