Thanks for this post. It made me think a lot about how EA could evolve. But I’m still puzzled about what sort of metrics we could use to measure growth or interest. I’ll just add that, besides (as mentioned in the text) being hard to make sense of Google Trends data, I made a brief comparison with other terms related to EA, such as “doing good better” &”giving what we can” &”the life you can save”, and it shows very different trends:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=effective altruism,giving what we can,doing good better,the life you can save,less wrong
Thanks for this post. It made me think a lot about how EA could evolve. But I’m still puzzled about what sort of metrics we could use to measure growth or interest. I’ll just add that, besides (as mentioned in the text) being hard to make sense of Google Trends data, I made a brief comparison with other terms related to EA, such as “doing good better” &”giving what we can” &”the life you can save”, and it shows very different trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=effective altruism,giving what we can,doing good better,the life you can save,less wrong