I like this! Iâm glad to be able to see a lot of your prior work gathered together like this (plus some material I donât remember seeing before).
One concern: I think this document, if seen outside the Forumâs context, could be read by people as representing an âofficialâ view of the EA community, rather than one personâs views on how to effectively engage with politics.
(The name âEffective Altruist Civic Handbookâ feeds into this; something like âCivic Activism through an EA Lensâ seems better, though Iâm sure you can come up with something less clunky than my example.)
When documents exist that can be shared around independent of an explanatory post, itâs good to include info on authorship/âpurpose to clarify who created them and what their background is.
This is something CEA has struggled with in the past. When we published the second version of the EA Handbook, we didnât initially clarify that CEA had written it, which made it seem like the work of the entire movement rather than the work of a single organization.
For a positive counterexample, Julia Wise wrote a piece on treatment for alcohol problems which included a note on her experience (mental health training and amateur research skills, no experience in treating substance abuse).
I like this! Iâm glad to be able to see a lot of your prior work gathered together like this (plus some material I donât remember seeing before).
One concern: I think this document, if seen outside the Forumâs context, could be read by people as representing an âofficialâ view of the EA community, rather than one personâs views on how to effectively engage with politics.
(The name âEffective Altruist Civic Handbookâ feeds into this; something like âCivic Activism through an EA Lensâ seems better, though Iâm sure you can come up with something less clunky than my example.)
When documents exist that can be shared around independent of an explanatory post, itâs good to include info on authorship/âpurpose to clarify who created them and what their background is.
This is something CEA has struggled with in the past. When we published the second version of the EA Handbook, we didnât initially clarify that CEA had written it, which made it seem like the work of the entire movement rather than the work of a single organization.
For a positive counterexample, Julia Wise wrote a piece on treatment for alcohol problems which included a note on her experience (mental health training and amateur research skills, no experience in treating substance abuse).
Done though I still havenât identified a proper catchy name. âEffective Altruist civic handbookâ was just meant as a placeholder.