Great post! Have any specific changes come about as a result of writing this? I’m always curious to better understand the feedback loop between dialogue on the forum and actions in the movement.
I particularly like the points about how EA can be too totalizing and think the movement could benefit from a more pragmatic streak, both with more practical minded professionally experienced people and also honestly more engagement with the pragmatist school of philosophical thought. (Everything seems to be pretty much implicitly consequentialist all the time around here.) I also wonder why can’t there be explicitly space for loose and half joined EA’s: “she got the sense that EA was a bit totalising, like she couldn’t really half-join”
I know of at least one recruiting effort that internally cited this post to describe a thing they could accidentally do and should work hard to avoid. I don’t know what their actual counterfactual was.
Great post! Have any specific changes come about as a result of writing this? I’m always curious to better understand the feedback loop between dialogue on the forum and actions in the movement.
I particularly like the points about how EA can be too totalizing and think the movement could benefit from a more pragmatic streak, both with more practical minded professionally experienced people and also honestly more engagement with the pragmatist school of philosophical thought. (Everything seems to be pretty much implicitly consequentialist all the time around here.) I also wonder why can’t there be explicitly space for loose and half joined EA’s: “she got the sense that EA was a bit totalising, like she couldn’t really half-join”
Here’s a bit I wrote on the need for a more open and ecumenical EA movement: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NR2Y2B8Y4Wxn8pAS8/towards-a-more-ecumenical-ea-movement
I know of at least one recruiting effort that internally cited this post to describe a thing they could accidentally do and should work hard to avoid. I don’t know what their actual counterfactual was.