I definitely love EA for its intellectual bent… We need to evaluate how we can do the most good, which can be a tricky process with reality often confounding our intuitions.
But I also love EA for wanting to use that reason to profoundly better the world… Action. What I get from this strategy is an emphasis on the cerebral without the emphasis on action. I think EA will appeal more broadly if we highlight action as well as cogitation, and these functions in furtherance of a world with far less suffering, more joy and ability of people to pursue their dreams, and a firm foundation for a wonderful world to persist indefinitely.
Definitely agreed that we need to showcase the action — hence my mention of “real-world impact and innovation” (and my examples of LEEP and far-UVC work as the kinds of things we’re very excited to promote).
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I definitely love EA for its intellectual bent… We need to evaluate how we can do the most good, which can be a tricky process with reality often confounding our intuitions.
But I also love EA for wanting to use that reason to profoundly better the world… Action. What I get from this strategy is an emphasis on the cerebral without the emphasis on action. I think EA will appeal more broadly if we highlight action as well as cogitation, and these functions in furtherance of a world with far less suffering, more joy and ability of people to pursue their dreams, and a firm foundation for a wonderful world to persist indefinitely.
Definitely agreed that we need to showcase the action — hence my mention of “real-world impact and innovation” (and my examples of LEEP and far-UVC work as the kinds of things we’re very excited to promote).