One other framing of the same thing, which might be more intuitive, is between the idea of effective altruism (use reason to do good better) vs the EA movement (the current group of people doing it and their priorities).
You could be in favour of the former, but not the latter—“I believe in the IDEA of effective altruism, but I think the EA movement is barking up the wrong tree” etc.
Another phrasing would be between “Big EA” and “Small ea”, but like we in the UK differentiate between people who are “Big C” conservative, ie support the Conservative party vs “small c conservative” which means you have a conservative disposition but implicitly don’t support the Conservative Party.
Just throwing these out in case they are more useful!
One other framing of the same thing, which might be more intuitive, is between the idea of effective altruism (use reason to do good better) vs the EA movement (the current group of people doing it and their priorities).
You could be in favour of the former, but not the latter—“I believe in the IDEA of effective altruism, but I think the EA movement is barking up the wrong tree” etc.
Another phrasing would be between “Big EA” and “Small ea”, but like we in the UK differentiate between people who are “Big C” conservative, ie support the Conservative party vs “small c conservative” which means you have a conservative disposition but implicitly don’t support the Conservative Party.
Just throwing these out in case they are more useful!