(1) reduce the chance that effective altruism does end up co-opting and/or incorrectly taking credit. (I don’t expect that Shakeel was intentionally trying to do this.)
(2) Lower priority, but I was intrigued about how the phrase “in EA” was being used more generally. Context: I think that what gets counted as “EA” or not often rests a lot on self-identification, which I don’t see as a particularly important or useful consideration. I’m more interested in whether projects seem cost-effective (in expectation), or at least whether people seem to be actually be putting the ‘core principles’ of EA to good use. (Here’s CEA’s list on that.) I suspect what’s going on here though is more about whether the projects have been Open Phil funded.
Yeah, no particular purpose other than to
(1) reduce the chance that effective altruism does end up co-opting and/or incorrectly taking credit. (I don’t expect that Shakeel was intentionally trying to do this.)
(2) Lower priority, but I was intrigued about how the phrase “in EA” was being used more generally. Context: I think that what gets counted as “EA” or not often rests a lot on self-identification, which I don’t see as a particularly important or useful consideration. I’m more interested in whether projects seem cost-effective (in expectation), or at least whether people seem to be actually be putting the ‘core principles’ of EA to good use. (Here’s CEA’s list on that.) I suspect what’s going on here though is more about whether the projects have been Open Phil funded.