Strongly movement-affiliated EAs are not dominant in the pledge reference class.
Evidence:
2,294 people have taken the pledge already. (See current here.)
GWWC donations appear dominated by a handful of multi-millionaires who were drawn to the community by a meaningful pledge rather than first getting involved in the movement.
If you take the reference class as people reading the EA Forum rather than people who’ve taken the GWWC pledge, Alyssa could be right. So it depends on whether the question is “should people who are reading this take the pledge” or “should the pledge exist/should we try really hard to promote it”.
Strongly movement-affiliated EAs are not dominant in the pledge reference class.
Evidence:
2,294 people have taken the pledge already. (See current here.)
GWWC donations appear dominated by a handful of multi-millionaires who were drawn to the community by a meaningful pledge rather than first getting involved in the movement.
If you take the reference class as people reading the EA Forum rather than people who’ve taken the GWWC pledge, Alyssa could be right. So it depends on whether the question is “should people who are reading this take the pledge” or “should the pledge exist/should we try really hard to promote it”.
Indeed. Knowing what the proposal is would help here.