I’m a little late to this thread, but I think this is very regrettable. I feel quite strongly that CEA should be building and growing a “big tent” Effective Altruism, around the core principles of EA. I think this announcement is quite corrosive to that goal.
I strongly support cause-specific field building, but this is best suited for sister organisations and not the Centre for Effective Altruism.
A lot of organisations in the EA community building space are underperforming, including CEA and including the organisation that I run. That’s okay. We just need to make steady progress to get where we need to be. But I believe this a significant step backwards, both in terms of the core vision of CEA and it’s actual output.
I don’t think I agree that CEA shouldn’t be doing cause specific events, and I think that given how the past couple of Bay Area EAGs went this is a pretty natural decision.
But it does seem pretty regrettable that there’ll be no cause-general EAG in the Americas next year.
Just want to clarify — it’s still possible that there is a cause-general EAG in the Americas next year (I expect slightly more than 50% likely, but this number is semi-made up).
I think the crux for me, is using EAG branding for an event that doesn’t represent all of Effective Altruism. If, like last year, an event will be run by CEA focusing on a particular area, I wouldn’t be too concerned.
I’m a little late to this thread, but I think this is very regrettable. I feel quite strongly that CEA should be building and growing a “big tent” Effective Altruism, around the core principles of EA. I think this announcement is quite corrosive to that goal.
I strongly support cause-specific field building, but this is best suited for sister organisations and not the Centre for Effective Altruism.
A lot of organisations in the EA community building space are underperforming, including CEA and including the organisation that I run. That’s okay. We just need to make steady progress to get where we need to be. But I believe this a significant step backwards, both in terms of the core vision of CEA and it’s actual output.
I don’t think I agree that CEA shouldn’t be doing cause specific events, and I think that given how the past couple of Bay Area EAGs went this is a pretty natural decision.
But it does seem pretty regrettable that there’ll be no cause-general EAG in the Americas next year.
Just want to clarify — it’s still possible that there is a cause-general EAG in the Americas next year (I expect slightly more than 50% likely, but this number is semi-made up).
I think the crux for me, is using EAG branding for an event that doesn’t represent all of Effective Altruism. If, like last year, an event will be run by CEA focusing on a particular area, I wouldn’t be too concerned.