Post about how EA should be marketed more as the natural step forward from our beliefs regarding equality. Everyone’s pains, dreams, and simple joys matter. This is true regardless of where or when you live, or even what species you are.
I think talking about cause neutrality, scout mindset, and the long term future is less of a natural introduction point. The idea of equality resonates pretty well with people. The implications of this might be a bit difficult to unpack as well (basically subjective experiences having the same terminal value wherever they transpire), but the basic notion comes from something pretty intuitive and uncontroversial.
I’ll try to find some time to write my thoughts on the matter. I’ve just been really behind on what I’m trying to do with my nonprofit. It really sucks having to spend most of your time at a full time job that is of very marginal direct value and try to conjure the energy you have left after that to do meaningful and impactful work.
EDIT: to be clear, the full-time job is NOT the nonprofit that I run
I’ll come back to this because I think there might be something by Richard Chapell on it (it sort of sounds like the idea that impartiality gets you most of the way to EA).
Another thought is that Draft Amnesty next week might be a good time to spend 30 mins bullet-pointing or dictating your thoughts and then posting them with minimal or no edits. I fully understand that even that can be hard to do after a day’s work though, so no pressure.
Yes, impartiality is the core idea here (which might be more accessible as “equality”) , and a lot of the other EA core ideas proceed from this with some modest assumptions. I’m just talking about using language that is more intuitive to connect with people more broadly. I think EA often wants to set itself apart from the rest of the world and emphasizes technical language and such. But a lot of the basic goals and ideas underlying them are pretty accessible and, I think, popular.
I probably could fit in writing a rough version of this for Draft Amnesty Week.
Post about how EA should be marketed more as the natural step forward from our beliefs regarding equality. Everyone’s pains, dreams, and simple joys matter. This is true regardless of where or when you live, or even what species you are.
I think talking about cause neutrality, scout mindset, and the long term future is less of a natural introduction point. The idea of equality resonates pretty well with people. The implications of this might be a bit difficult to unpack as well (basically subjective experiences having the same terminal value wherever they transpire), but the basic notion comes from something pretty intuitive and uncontroversial.
I really like this and think there’s some gold to be mined here. Why don’t you write it ;)
Thanks Nick.
I’ll try to find some time to write my thoughts on the matter. I’ve just been really behind on what I’m trying to do with my nonprofit. It really sucks having to spend most of your time at a full time job that is of very marginal direct value and try to conjure the energy you have left after that to do meaningful and impactful work.
EDIT: to be clear, the full-time job is NOT the nonprofit that I run
I’ll come back to this because I think there might be something by Richard Chapell on it (it sort of sounds like the idea that impartiality gets you most of the way to EA).
Another thought is that Draft Amnesty next week might be a good time to spend 30 mins bullet-pointing or dictating your thoughts and then posting them with minimal or no edits. I fully understand that even that can be hard to do after a day’s work though, so no pressure.
Yes, impartiality is the core idea here (which might be more accessible as “equality”) , and a lot of the other EA core ideas proceed from this with some modest assumptions. I’m just talking about using language that is more intuitive to connect with people more broadly. I think EA often wants to set itself apart from the rest of the world and emphasizes technical language and such. But a lot of the basic goals and ideas underlying them are pretty accessible and, I think, popular.
I probably could fit in writing a rough version of this for Draft Amnesty Week.