I really like this list and think it will be helpful for me! Do you have thoughts on the relative importance of these various heuristics? Maybe something like a heuristic for which heuristics are most important for one’s situation?
Also, you wrote:
Scale, number helped—do something that impacts many people positively Scale, degree helped—do something that impacts people to a great positive degree
I’d like to point out that “people” doesn’t quite capture who EA is trying to help (considering that we strive to do what’s impartially good, we arguably ought to reject speciesism and substratism, thus also taking into consideration minds that are non-human and/or digital and/or ”???”). I’m not sure what’s the best term to use (also depends on the situation in which you use one of the terms), but “sentient beings” / “sentient minds” / “moral patients” seem like terms that better capture what EA as a community is concerned with.
I really like this list and think it will be helpful for me!
Do you have thoughts on the relative importance of these various heuristics? Maybe something like a heuristic for which heuristics are most important for one’s situation?
Also, you wrote:
I’d like to point out that “people” doesn’t quite capture who EA is trying to help (considering that we strive to do what’s impartially good, we arguably ought to reject speciesism and substratism, thus also taking into consideration minds that are non-human and/or digital and/or ”???”).
I’m not sure what’s the best term to use (also depends on the situation in which you use one of the terms), but “sentient beings” / “sentient minds” / “moral patients” seem like terms that better capture what EA as a community is concerned with.