My post is related to the Giving What We Can pledge and the broad idea of focusing on “utilons, not fuzzies.” From the wording of your comment I’m unclear on whether you’re unfamiliar with these ideas or whether you are just taking this as an opportunity to say that you disagree with them. If you don’t think that standards like the GWWC pledge are good for EA, then what do you think about the 2%/8% norm I propose here as a better alternative, even if far suboptimal to no pledge at all?
I don’t think taking the GWWC pledge should be a prerequisite to consider yourself an EA (which, it’s not a prerequisite now). If your post had said “GWWC members should...” or “EAs who donate 10% should...” instead of “EAs should...” then I wouldn’t have disagreed with the wording.
That makes sense. I don’t think there are any official prerequisites to being an EA, but there are community norms. I think the GWWC pledge (or a direct-work equivalent) is a common-enough practical or aspirational norm that I’m comfortable with eliding EA and GWWC-adjacent-EA for the purposes of this post, but I acknowledge you’d prefer to split these apart for a sensible reason.
My post is related to the Giving What We Can pledge and the broad idea of focusing on “utilons, not fuzzies.” From the wording of your comment I’m unclear on whether you’re unfamiliar with these ideas or whether you are just taking this as an opportunity to say that you disagree with them. If you don’t think that standards like the GWWC pledge are good for EA, then what do you think about the 2%/8% norm I propose here as a better alternative, even if far suboptimal to no pledge at all?
I don’t think taking the GWWC pledge should be a prerequisite to consider yourself an EA (which, it’s not a prerequisite now). If your post had said “GWWC members should...” or “EAs who donate 10% should...” instead of “EAs should...” then I wouldn’t have disagreed with the wording.
That makes sense. I don’t think there are any official prerequisites to being an EA, but there are community norms. I think the GWWC pledge (or a direct-work equivalent) is a common-enough practical or aspirational norm that I’m comfortable with eliding EA and GWWC-adjacent-EA for the purposes of this post, but I acknowledge you’d prefer to split these apart for a sensible reason.