I don’t think that EA should be graduated from. I think that it’s a matter of continuing to develop in both the “effective” and “altruistic” components.
With “Effective”, I’d say we’re talking about an epistemological process. There, you’re trying to learn the relevant knowledge about the world and yourself such that the resources within your control that you are deciding to deploy for altruistic purposes are deployed such that they can do the most good.
With “Altruism”, that would be digging deep within yourself so that you can deploy more of those resources. The ideal, in my mind, would be having no more partiality to your own interests than those of other conscious beings across space, species, and/or time.
So, I don’t see an endpoint, but rather a constant striving for knowledge, wisdom, and will.
I don’t think that EA should be graduated from. I think that it’s a matter of continuing to develop in both the “effective” and “altruistic” components.
With “Effective”, I’d say we’re talking about an epistemological process. There, you’re trying to learn the relevant knowledge about the world and yourself such that the resources within your control that you are deciding to deploy for altruistic purposes are deployed such that they can do the most good.
With “Altruism”, that would be digging deep within yourself so that you can deploy more of those resources. The ideal, in my mind, would be having no more partiality to your own interests than those of other conscious beings across space, species, and/or time.
So, I don’t see an endpoint, but rather a constant striving for knowledge, wisdom, and will.