I really appreciate everyone working on EA movement building anyway, and I would hope everyone takes a moment to consider how much they’ve benefitted from the EA movement, how much they’ve contributed and how they feel about the balance.
Many movements get worse over time. They grow, at some point the first scandals inevitably happen, some great leaders and communicators decide to reduce their affiliation, the public image gets lower quality, this makes it harder to get new leaders and communicators on board, etc. I’m glad we’re not there yet, I still meet many inspiring people at EAGs or local EA meetups, but the risk is real, and if EA dies I don’t see which other movement could fill that gap.
Many thanks to CEA and other EA community builders for all your hard work, and [edit] to people who don’t hide their EA affiliation and keep publicly advocating for the movement and the ideas.
Btw, Karl Lauterbach, the former German minister of health, has mentioned “effective altruism” in a press conference as a framework to help justify covid measures during the pandemic. If one of Germany’s top ~10 politicians (at the time) can risk that, you can too ;)
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I really appreciate everyone working on EA movement building anyway, and I would hope everyone takes a moment to consider how much they’ve benefitted from the EA movement, how much they’ve contributed and how they feel about the balance.
Many movements get worse over time. They grow, at some point the first scandals inevitably happen, some great leaders and communicators decide to reduce their affiliation, the public image gets lower quality, this makes it harder to get new leaders and communicators on board, etc. I’m glad we’re not there yet, I still meet many inspiring people at EAGs or local EA meetups, but the risk is real, and if EA dies I don’t see which other movement could fill that gap.
Many thanks to CEA and other EA community builders for all your hard work, and [edit] to people who don’t hide their EA affiliation and keep publicly advocating for the movement and the ideas.
Btw, Karl Lauterbach, the former German minister of health, has mentioned “effective altruism” in a press conference as a framework to help justify covid measures during the pandemic. If one of Germany’s top ~10 politicians (at the time) can risk that, you can too ;)