A non-trivial fraction of the responses seem to me like widely-held beliefs (‘popular unpopular opinions’), at least in my particular EA cluster (UK, mostly London). Some of them and other perhaps less widely-held ones I have expressed to other people, and there at least weren’t any immediate obvious social repercussions.
Of course there are also many responses I completely disagree with.
“We should evaluate reducing abortions as an EA cause.”
I once even wrote a research proposal on this for the CEA Summer Research Fellowship 2017. I was then invited to the programme.
A non-trivial fraction of the responses seem to me like widely-held beliefs (‘popular unpopular opinions’), at least in my particular EA cluster (UK, mostly London). Some of them and other perhaps less widely-held ones I have expressed to other people, and there at least weren’t any immediate obvious social repercussions.
Of course there are also many responses I completely disagree with.
“We should evaluate reducing abortions as an EA cause.”
I once even wrote a research proposal on this for the CEA Summer Research Fellowship 2017. I was then invited to the programme.
Could you link to the research by any chance?