The answer to your question is basically what I phrased as a hypothetical before:
participation in the EA movement as one way to bring oneself closer to God through the theological virtue of charity.
I was involved in EA at university for 2 years before coming to believe Catholicism is true, and it didn’t seem like Church dogma conflicted with my pro-EA intuitions at all, so I’ve just stayed with it. It helped that I wasn’t ever an EA for rigidly consequentialist reasons; I just wanted to help people and EA’s analytical approach was a natural fit for my existing interests (e.g. LW-style rationality).
I’m not sure my case (becoming both EA and Catholic due to LW-style reasoning) is broadly applicable; I think EA would be better served sticking to traditional recruiting channels rather than trying to extend outreach to religious people qua religious people. Moreover, I feel that it’s very very important for EA to defend the value of taking ideas seriously, which would rule out a lot of the proposed religious outreach strategies you see (such as this post from Ozy).
The answer to your question is basically what I phrased as a hypothetical before:
I was involved in EA at university for 2 years before coming to believe Catholicism is true, and it didn’t seem like Church dogma conflicted with my pro-EA intuitions at all, so I’ve just stayed with it. It helped that I wasn’t ever an EA for rigidly consequentialist reasons; I just wanted to help people and EA’s analytical approach was a natural fit for my existing interests (e.g. LW-style rationality).
I’m not sure my case (becoming both EA and Catholic due to LW-style reasoning) is broadly applicable; I think EA would be better served sticking to traditional recruiting channels rather than trying to extend outreach to religious people qua religious people. Moreover, I feel that it’s very very important for EA to defend the value of taking ideas seriously, which would rule out a lot of the proposed religious outreach strategies you see (such as this post from Ozy).