I found your TLDR very confusing. I am pretty confident you would have tuned out a substantial number of people (maybe up to 20% who clicked through?) with the phrasing:
”tl;dr: It actually seems pretty rare for people to care about the general good as such (i.e., optimizing cause-agnostic impartial well-being), as we can see by prejudged dismissals of EA concern for non-standard beneficiaries and for doing good via indirect means.”
I found your TLDR very confusing. I am pretty confident you would have tuned out a substantial number of people (maybe up to 20% who clicked through?) with the phrasing:
”tl;dr: It actually seems pretty rare for people to care about the general good as such (i.e., optimizing cause-agnostic impartial well-being), as we can see by prejudged dismissals of EA concern for non-standard beneficiaries and for doing good via indirect means.”
Thanks, that’s helpful feedback. I guess I was too focused on making it concise, rather than easily understood.
no problemo!