Has anyone tried to propose quantitative guidelines for qualifying to be an EA outside of donating 10% of your income? This would ideally address the other ways of being an EA: direct paid work, volunteering, influencing others, and enabling EAs (or a combination thereof).
Yes, I think four hours would be reasonable. To Larks, I think if you exclude grooming and eating, you could argue there would be roughly around 40 hours beyond working, so four hours would be 10% of that.
I think it would be useful to spell out what qualifies. Obviously actual volunteering for effective organization would qualify. But I think spending time trying to convert your friends would qualify. And I also think that advising an effective altruist how to invest better would qualify if a significant amount of the extra earnings went to effective organizations. I think that contributing to EA fora would qualify. But maybe if one is just lurking, then they would be an aspiring EA because they are just learning?
And maybe we could use this to quantify the overall level of effort towards EA. For instance, if you donate 50% of your money and 50% of your free time, you would be a 100% (full time?) EA. Is it a problem that this could go over 100%? Anyone interested in writing a post on this?
Does anyone have any ideas about how to perhaps quantify whether youāve made a āsignificantā career change? Not that that necessarily means you couldnāt donate 10%. Hours spent volunteering would be interesting.
I do have difficulty with this āsignificantā definition. For instance, if someone was already working in an effective career, then they would not qualify. But I guess as long as you could argue they were the best person for the job, they would have some counterfactual impact. Also, effective careers tend to be paid below-market wage, so the worker should get credit for that. These things together could easily equal 10% of the wage, which would then qualify (because we want to give the donor much of the credit for the salary itself).
Has anyone tried to propose quantitative guidelines for qualifying to be an EA outside of donating 10% of your income? This would ideally address the other ways of being an EA: direct paid work, volunteering, influencing others, and enabling EAs (or a combination thereof).
10% of your income for a 40H workweek is about 4 hours, or ~6 if you include tax.
Yes, I think four hours would be reasonable. To Larks, I think if you exclude grooming and eating, you could argue there would be roughly around 40 hours beyond working, so four hours would be 10% of that.
I think it would be useful to spell out what qualifies. Obviously actual volunteering for effective organization would qualify. But I think spending time trying to convert your friends would qualify. And I also think that advising an effective altruist how to invest better would qualify if a significant amount of the extra earnings went to effective organizations. I think that contributing to EA fora would qualify. But maybe if one is just lurking, then they would be an aspiring EA because they are just learning?
And maybe we could use this to quantify the overall level of effort towards EA. For instance, if you donate 50% of your money and 50% of your free time, you would be a 100% (full time?) EA. Is it a problem that this could go over 100%? Anyone interested in writing a post on this?
Does anyone have any ideas about how to perhaps quantify whether youāve made a āsignificantā career change? Not that that necessarily means you couldnāt donate 10%. Hours spent volunteering would be interesting.
I do have difficulty with this āsignificantā definition. For instance, if someone was already working in an effective career, then they would not qualify. But I guess as long as you could argue they were the best person for the job, they would have some counterfactual impact. Also, effective careers tend to be paid below-market wage, so the worker should get credit for that. These things together could easily equal 10% of the wage, which would then qualify (because we want to give the donor much of the credit for the salary itself).
Symmetry suggests 10% of something else, but even 10% of non-working, non-sleeping hours seems very high (7 hours a week).