Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement where people use reasoning and evidence to do the most good with some of their resources. The key is ‘with some of their resources.’ It is better than saying ‘with their spare resources,’ because if one approaches e. g. 30% of their networks to implement EA-related changes, then the definition would be inaccurate because these networks are not ‘spare;’ it is also better than saying ‘with their philanthropically allocated resources’ or something else that includes ‘allocated’ because that connotes staticity of the extent and a distinction between philanthropically and non-philanthropically ‘utilized’ ‘resources’ (which may make the definition inaccurate when someone uses some of their resources partly in a good maximizing manner and partly in another way).
This definition can be also acceptable to people who can think about how much of resources they can do good with and how, as opposed to thinking in absolutes or competitive terms.
The issue can be that ‘some of their resources’ is vague, so the institutional understanding of an ok extent of resources (any which does not prevent people from engaging in what truly makes them happy, such as sharing great times with others, and having a facile life?) needs to be maintained.
I am also writing ‘reasoning and evidence’ (first ‘reasoning,’ also as opposed to ‘reason,’ and then ‘evidence’) because thus readers can understand the process of coming up with solutions based on the information that they find and can trust as opposed to being given evidence (which connotes incriminating evidence at court) and being empowered to assert it by ‘reason’ (implying a framework under one which is right and thus should not be argued against).
Hmmm, I think this is not quite what I am after. If I understand correctly, what you’re saying is that we should normalize people having a limited allotment for their “third bucket” budget for saving the world. What I am saying is that we should normalize anyone doing any kind of altruism who is mindful of effectiveness within the work that they are doing.
Ah, I see. Yes, normalizing altruism with an effectiveness mindset within the work people are doing may be a more robust solution than inviting a limited resource budget allocation for almost ‘external’ EA ventures.
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Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement where people use reasoning and evidence to do the most good with some of their resources. The key is ‘with some of their resources.’ It is better than saying ‘with their spare resources,’ because if one approaches e. g. 30% of their networks to implement EA-related changes, then the definition would be inaccurate because these networks are not ‘spare;’ it is also better than saying ‘with their philanthropically allocated resources’ or something else that includes ‘allocated’ because that connotes staticity of the extent and a distinction between philanthropically and non-philanthropically ‘utilized’ ‘resources’ (which may make the definition inaccurate when someone uses some of their resources partly in a good maximizing manner and partly in another way).
This definition can be also acceptable to people who can think about how much of resources they can do good with and how, as opposed to thinking in absolutes or competitive terms.
The issue can be that ‘some of their resources’ is vague, so the institutional understanding of an ok extent of resources (any which does not prevent people from engaging in what truly makes them happy, such as sharing great times with others, and having a facile life?) needs to be maintained.
I am also writing ‘reasoning and evidence’ (first ‘reasoning,’ also as opposed to ‘reason,’ and then ‘evidence’) because thus readers can understand the process of coming up with solutions based on the information that they find and can trust as opposed to being given evidence (which connotes incriminating evidence at court) and being empowered to assert it by ‘reason’ (implying a framework under one which is right and thus should not be argued against).
Hmmm, I think this is not quite what I am after. If I understand correctly, what you’re saying is that we should normalize people having a limited allotment for their “third bucket” budget for saving the world. What I am saying is that we should normalize anyone doing any kind of altruism who is mindful of effectiveness within the work that they are doing.
Ah, I see. Yes, normalizing altruism with an effectiveness mindset within the work people are doing may be a more robust solution than inviting a limited resource budget allocation for almost ‘external’ EA ventures.