I am personally very interested in cause areas like global poverty, so it is great to see more people wanting to discuss the related issues in depth.
Nevertheless, I strongly support the definition of EA as a question (how can we use our resources to help others the most?) and that makes me not want to tag myself as a “[enter category here] EA” (e.g. “near-term EA”, “far-future EA”...).
In practical terms, the above leads me to enjoy my views being challenged by people who have come to different conclusions and I tend to favour a “portfolio approach” to doing good, somewhat along the lines of Open Phil’s “worldview diversification”.
Regarding discussion, there should be great spaces for both the meta topics and the cause-specific ones. Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could host all those discussions under the same roof? Maybe this thread can be used as an input for the upcoming EA Forum 2.0. The feature request would be something like “make it easy to host and find worldview-specific discussions”.
I am personally very interested in cause areas like global poverty, so it is great to see more people wanting to discuss the related issues in depth.
Nevertheless, I strongly support the definition of EA as a question (how can we use our resources to help others the most?) and that makes me not want to tag myself as a “[enter category here] EA” (e.g. “near-term EA”, “far-future EA”...).
In practical terms, the above leads me to enjoy my views being challenged by people who have come to different conclusions and I tend to favour a “portfolio approach” to doing good, somewhat along the lines of Open Phil’s “worldview diversification”.
Regarding discussion, there should be great spaces for both the meta topics and the cause-specific ones. Wouldn’t it be ideal if we could host all those discussions under the same roof? Maybe this thread can be used as an input for the upcoming EA Forum 2.0. The feature request would be something like “make it easy to host and find worldview-specific discussions”.