I think this post doesn’t explicitly recognize a (to me) important upside of doing this, which applies to doing all things that other people aren’t doing: potential information value.
This post exists because people tried something different and were thoughtful about the results, and now potentially many other people in similar situations can benefit from the knowledge of how it went. On the other hand, if you try it and it’s bad, you can write a post about what difficulties you encountered so that other people can anticipate and avoid them better.
By contrast, naming your group Effective Altruism Erasmus wouldn’t have led to any new insights about group naming.
I think this post doesn’t explicitly recognize a (to me) important upside of doing this, which applies to doing all things that other people aren’t doing: potential information value.
This post exists because people tried something different and were thoughtful about the results, and now potentially many other people in similar situations can benefit from the knowledge of how it went. On the other hand, if you try it and it’s bad, you can write a post about what difficulties you encountered so that other people can anticipate and avoid them better.
By contrast, naming your group Effective Altruism Erasmus wouldn’t have led to any new insights about group naming.