Same here—Will MacAskill’s publicists are doing a great job getting EA in the public eye right as What We Owe the Future looms. (Speaking of which, the front page of this Sunday’s New York Times opinion section is The Case for Longtermism!)
On a slight tangent, as a university organizer, I’ve noticed that few college students have heard of EA at all (based on informal polling outside a dining hall, ~<10%). It’ll be interesting to see if/how all this contemporary coverage changes that.
2 of my acquaintances at uni who sorta knew I was involved in EA stuff but weren’t really that interested in it themselves have quite recently (~a week ago) reached out to ask about EA because they came across it elsewhere. My guess is that there are many more who’ll come across it and be curious but not necessarily connect the dot to engaging with their university student group.
Would be interesting to hear from people at universities that have the new academic year soon about if the EA coverage in the media changed anything!
Same here—Will MacAskill’s publicists are doing a great job getting EA in the public eye right as What We Owe the Future looms. (Speaking of which, the front page of this Sunday’s New York Times opinion section is The Case for Longtermism!)
On a slight tangent, as a university organizer, I’ve noticed that few college students have heard of EA at all (based on informal polling outside a dining hall, ~<10%). It’ll be interesting to see if/how all this contemporary coverage changes that.
2 of my acquaintances at uni who sorta knew I was involved in EA stuff but weren’t really that interested in it themselves have quite recently (~a week ago) reached out to ask about EA because they came across it elsewhere. My guess is that there are many more who’ll come across it and be curious but not necessarily connect the dot to engaging with their university student group.
Would be interesting to hear from people at universities that have the new academic year soon about if the EA coverage in the media changed anything!