Oh, I’m not a social scientist. It’s just an inference to the best explanation in response to commonly observed behaviour, e.g. all those who “go and donate to local children’s hospitals and puppy shelters, while showing no interest in learning about neglected tropical diseases or improving factory-farmed animal welfare.”
That said, just because the EA project is (currently) unusual doesn’t mean that we can’t hope that that might change! Sometimes people initially fail to pursue a goal simply because it hasn’t even occurred to them, or they haven’t thought about it in the right way to see why it’s actually pretty appealing. So introducing the ideas, and making clear their intrinsic appeal, could still potentially sway many people who didn’t previously have the EA project among their goals.
Oh, I’m not a social scientist. It’s just an inference to the best explanation in response to commonly observed behaviour, e.g. all those who “go and donate to local children’s hospitals and puppy shelters, while showing no interest in learning about neglected tropical diseases or improving factory-farmed animal welfare.”
That said, just because the EA project is (currently) unusual doesn’t mean that we can’t hope that that might change! Sometimes people initially fail to pursue a goal simply because it hasn’t even occurred to them, or they haven’t thought about it in the right way to see why it’s actually pretty appealing. So introducing the ideas, and making clear their intrinsic appeal, could still potentially sway many people who didn’t previously have the EA project among their goals.