Hmmm does that mean you’re going to keep the current approach? As it stands it seems to ‘encourage more donors to adopt the tenets of “effective altruism”’. That’s not in accordance with what you’re trying to do. Just giving you a data point that to me it’s not subtle at all. Even if it’s one paragraph it’s about as close as you can get to directly promoting EA in a news article about another topic. And people seem to sense that. Also, if someone disliked the article or the method of spreading the word I’m pretty sure that would reflect badly on EA as a result. The paragraph implies that the article is written by someone who identifies as an EA.
I think that you can be a lot more subtle and the right people will still find EA. A link to GiveWell should be enough.
Hmmm does that mean you’re going to keep the current approach? As it stands it seems to ‘encourage more donors to adopt the tenets of “effective altruism”’. That’s not in accordance with what you’re trying to do. Just giving you a data point that to me it’s not subtle at all. Even if it’s one paragraph it’s about as close as you can get to directly promoting EA in a news article about another topic. And people seem to sense that. Also, if someone disliked the article or the method of spreading the word I’m pretty sure that would reflect badly on EA as a result. The paragraph implies that the article is written by someone who identifies as an EA.
I think that you can be a lot more subtle and the right people will still find EA. A link to GiveWell should be enough.
Yeah, tough balance to draw indeed. You know, I’ll check to see what Kerry Vaughn thinks, I really appreciate his thoughtful approach to this matter.