Anecdotally, I tried to explain my friend in global health activism that effective altruism is a movement/philosophy, not an organization something like five times now, and he still doesn’t really get it. He keeps on asking me where “effective altruism”’s headquarters are. I told him about CEA but emphasized that there’s important work being done that isn’t directly connected to CEA (eg. GiveWell), but I don’t really think he gets it/really believes me. Some people takes the non-hierarchal elements of EA deeply in stride, and some people have a lot of trouble understanding it, apparently.
Anecdotally, I tried to explain my friend in global health activism that effective altruism is a movement/philosophy, not an organization something like five times now, and he still doesn’t really get it. He keeps on asking me where “effective altruism”’s headquarters are. I told him about CEA but emphasized that there’s important work being done that isn’t directly connected to CEA (eg. GiveWell), but I don’t really think he gets it/really believes me. Some people takes the non-hierarchal elements of EA deeply in stride, and some people have a lot of trouble understanding it, apparently.