I always interpreted the 10% as a goal, not a requirement for EA. That’s a pretty high portion for a lot of people. I worry that making that sound like a cutoff makes EA seem even more inaccessible.
The way I had interpreted the community message was more like “an EA is someone that thinks about where their giving would be most effective or spends time working on the world’s most pressing problems.”
I always interpreted the 10% as a goal, not a requirement for EA. That’s a pretty high portion for a lot of people. I worry that making that sound like a cutoff makes EA seem even more inaccessible.
The way I had interpreted the community message was more like “an EA is someone that thinks about where their giving would be most effective or spends time working on the world’s most pressing problems.”