âMy understanding (though I could be wrong) is that this discussion was set up to be broken into a series of mini-lessons for users of the Waking Up app.â â I can confirm this is correct.
The first episode came out August 2016. This is highly speculative, but could the Trump 2016 successful campaign have played a role in the impact of this episode?
I wouldnât suggest this, however this first episode influenced me heavily with donations and enthusiasm for EA. I had decided prior to listening, I ought to donate more of my wealth to charity and was pretty firm on the idea. This was likely due to a couple of reasons, but Trumpâs popularity was definitely one of them. The strong nationalism and disregard for decency (in my opinion) conflicted with my moral views. Maybe I wasnât that unique and a lot of people with similar globalised moral inclinations were âtriggeredâ or encouraged by this environment to reflect more on their beliefs.
I found the episode via googling something along the lines of âeffective charitiesâ (November/âDecember, 2016), and it would have been one of the top links (on first few pages). Iâm not sure if I had ever listened to a Sam Harris podcast before, but would have recognised the name as someone I respected from my early adult âanti-religionâ phase.
Sorry if that is self-indulgent over sharing, but it might just be relevant that the first episode came out at a fairly convenient time?
I do think that the possible factors in the article, as well as âfit with audienceâ mentioned by Ben Todd and others are stronger factors.
Thatâs an interesting theory, but if there was an effect, I donât see it in the data we have on the growth of Giving What We Can. (The slope goes a bit higher around the 2016 election, but that happens every holiday season, because thereâs a lot more charitable giving then.)
âMy understanding (though I could be wrong) is that this discussion was set up to be broken into a series of mini-lessons for users of the Waking Up app.â â I can confirm this is correct.
The first episode came out August 2016. This is highly speculative, but could the Trump 2016 successful campaign have played a role in the impact of this episode?
I wouldnât suggest this, however this first episode influenced me heavily with donations and enthusiasm for EA. I had decided prior to listening, I ought to donate more of my wealth to charity and was pretty firm on the idea. This was likely due to a couple of reasons, but Trumpâs popularity was definitely one of them. The strong nationalism and disregard for decency (in my opinion) conflicted with my moral views. Maybe I wasnât that unique and a lot of people with similar globalised moral inclinations were âtriggeredâ or encouraged by this environment to reflect more on their beliefs.
I found the episode via googling something along the lines of âeffective charitiesâ (November/âDecember, 2016), and it would have been one of the top links (on first few pages). Iâm not sure if I had ever listened to a Sam Harris podcast before, but would have recognised the name as someone I respected from my early adult âanti-religionâ phase.
Sorry if that is self-indulgent over sharing, but it might just be relevant that the first episode came out at a fairly convenient time?
I do think that the possible factors in the article, as well as âfit with audienceâ mentioned by Ben Todd and others are stronger factors.
Thatâs an interesting theory, but if there was an effect, I donât see it in the data we have on the growth of Giving What We Can. (The slope goes a bit higher around the 2016 election, but that happens every holiday season, because thereâs a lot more charitable giving then.)