Imagine Rob Mather hadn’t started the Against Malaria Foundation. That’s likely 200 million bednets, gone from the world.
Imagine Karolina and Joey hadn’t started CE, that’s 23 charities and perhaps all their future impact, gone from the world.
Imagine Will hadn’t started GWWC and CEA, that likely means no EAGs, no movement, no EA Forum…. all gone from the world.
Leaders, founders, starters- people who step up to the plate and launch something are incredibly contingent, irreplaceable, and important. They can set in motion massive amounts of impact. Few opportunities have such upsides, few build more career capital.
We have thousands of EAs but not nearly enough organizations to absorb the current talent pool, let alone the future tsunami of people coming into EA. We need to create a pipeline of hundreds of organizations now, who will absorb and direct the world’s most talented and committed altruists towards the world’s most pressing problems. If we don’t, so much good will be wasted.
Not sure. The ideas of EA and of bed nets were around long before these people stepped up to the plate. Some argue that without GW, EA might not have taken off to this day. But I do agree that oftentimes leaders are advancing things more quickly than they would otherwise be.
If you wanted me to know a 5 minute pitch to tell someone why CE is important, what would it be?
Imagine Rob Mather hadn’t started the Against Malaria Foundation. That’s likely 200 million bednets, gone from the world.
Imagine Karolina and Joey hadn’t started CE, that’s 23 charities and perhaps all their future impact, gone from the world.
Imagine Will hadn’t started GWWC and CEA, that likely means no EAGs, no movement, no EA Forum…. all gone from the world.
Leaders, founders, starters- people who step up to the plate and launch something are incredibly contingent, irreplaceable, and important. They can set in motion massive amounts of impact. Few opportunities have such upsides, few build more career capital.
We have thousands of EAs but not nearly enough organizations to absorb the current talent pool, let alone the future tsunami of people coming into EA. We need to create a pipeline of hundreds of organizations now, who will absorb and direct the world’s most talented and committed altruists towards the world’s most pressing problems. If we don’t, so much good will be wasted.
I’ll push back a little that those things wouldn’t have happened, but you’re right that they would have happened later and that would have been bad.
Not sure. The ideas of EA and of bed nets were around long before these people stepped up to the plate. Some argue that without GW, EA might not have taken off to this day. But I do agree that oftentimes leaders are advancing things more quickly than they would otherwise be.