Now vs Later, or Optimal Timing, or Optimal Timing for Altruists, or some other name.
This would be intended to capture posts relevant to the debate over “giving now vs later” and “patient vs urgent longtermism”, as well as related debates like whether to do direct work now vs build career capital vs movement-build, and how much to give/work now vs later, and when to give/work if not now (“later” is a very large category!).
This tag would overlap with Hinge of History, but seems meaningfully distinct from that.
Patient Philanthropy seems like the general category. Not all of it will be about the debate as to whether it’s right, but it seems like a tag that encompasses questions like, “given that I want to give later, how do I do that” seems good.
Thanks for highlighting patient philanthropy as an option, and good point that it’d be good for this tag to not just be about the debate but also how to implement the patient approach.
I’ve now made this tag, though with the name Patient Altruism. I haven’t heard that term used, but it makes sense to me as a generalisation of patient philanthropy to also account for how to use work, not just how to use donations. I’ve now also written a shortform post arguing for the term.
One worry I have is that by saying Patient Altruism rather than Patient vs Urgent Altruism, this tag puts virtuous connotations on one side but not the other. But the version with “vs Urgent” is longer, it perhaps doesn’t as naturally include posts about how to take the patient approach, and I’ve only heard the term “urgent longtermism”, not “urgent philanthropy” (though I do suggest use of the terms “urgent philanthropy” and “urgent altruism” in that shortform post).
Now vs Later, or Optimal Timing, or Optimal Timing for Altruists, or some other name.
This would be intended to capture posts relevant to the debate over “giving now vs later” and “patient vs urgent longtermism”, as well as related debates like whether to do direct work now vs build career capital vs movement-build, and how much to give/work now vs later, and when to give/work if not now (“later” is a very large category!).
This tag would overlap with Hinge of History, but seems meaningfully distinct from that.
Not sure what the best name would be.
Patient Philanthropy seems like the general category. Not all of it will be about the debate as to whether it’s right, but it seems like a tag that encompasses questions like, “given that I want to give later, how do I do that” seems good.
Thanks for highlighting patient philanthropy as an option, and good point that it’d be good for this tag to not just be about the debate but also how to implement the patient approach.
I’ve now made this tag, though with the name Patient Altruism. I haven’t heard that term used, but it makes sense to me as a generalisation of patient philanthropy to also account for how to use work, not just how to use donations. I’ve now also written a shortform post arguing for the term.
One worry I have is that by saying Patient Altruism rather than Patient vs Urgent Altruism, this tag puts virtuous connotations on one side but not the other. But the version with “vs Urgent” is longer, it perhaps doesn’t as naturally include posts about how to take the patient approach, and I’ve only heard the term “urgent longtermism”, not “urgent philanthropy” (though I do suggest use of the terms “urgent philanthropy” and “urgent altruism” in that shortform post).