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So­cial and in­tel­lec­tual movements

TagLast edit: Jun 20, 2022, 12:50 PM by Leo

The social and intellectual movements tag applies to posts that discuss how other social and intellectual movements relate to effective altruism. For example, they might discuss:

Further reading

Aird, Michael (2020) Collection of EA analyses of how social social movements rise, fall, can be influential, etc., Effective Altruism Forum, March 26.
Many additional resources on this topic or related topics.

Della Porta, Donatella & Mario Diani (eds.) (2015) The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Klandermans, Bert & Conny Roggeband (eds.) (2010) Handbook of Social Movements across Disciplines, New York: Springer Science+Business Media.

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building effective altruism | communities adjacent to effective altruism | criticism of effective altruism | fabianism | history of effective altruism | movement collapse | nuclear disarmament movement | religion

GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

AmAristizabalJun 8, 2021, 1:55 PM
131 points
7 comments26 min readEA link

Which prop­er­ties does the EA move­ment share with deep-time or­gani­sa­tions?

FJehnAug 26, 2020, 10:59 AM
47 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

[Short Ver­sion] What Helped the Voice­less? His­tor­i­cal Case Studies

MauDec 15, 2020, 3:40 AM
53 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Re­think­ing the Liber­a­tion Pledge (Eva Hamer)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 3, 2023, 6:44 PM
76 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(paxfauna.org)

The Ex­tent of Naive Real­ism’s In­fluence on Youth So­cial Movements

Siya SawhneyDec 16, 2024, 5:54 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Sto­ries from the ori­gins of the an­i­mal welfare movement

Julia_Wise🔸Mar 12, 2024, 1:44 AM
69 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

En­vi­ron­men­tal­ism in the United States Is Unusu­ally Partisan

Jeffrey HeningerMay 13, 2024, 9:23 PM
64 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

In­tro­duc­ing Fu­ture Mat­ters – a strat­egy consultancy

KyleGraceySep 30, 2023, 2:06 AM
59 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Protest move­ments: How effec­tive are they?

JamesÖzAug 22, 2022, 11:28 AM
139 points
25 comments10 min readEA link

Tan­ner Greer on So­cial Movements

Edgar LinJul 3, 2021, 8:46 PM
43 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(scholars-stage.org)

Ini­tial re­search on so­cial move­ments & protest

JamesÖzMar 28, 2022, 2:02 PM
39 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism as a So­cial Move­ment

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Jan 16, 2021, 6:55 AM
14 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

Alix PhamAug 5, 2024, 2:46 PM
317 points
43 comments4 min readEA link

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the US Pri­son­ers’ Rights Movement

Jamie_HarrisJul 22, 2020, 12:10 PM
32 points
3 comments128 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Rad­i­cal tac­tics can in­crease sup­port for more mod­er­ate groups

JamesÖzDec 16, 2022, 11:36 AM
92 points
18 comments15 min readEA link

The Fabian so­ciety was weirdly similar to the EA movement

MathiasKB🔸Apr 26, 2022, 8:23 AM
79 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Why do so­cial move­ments fail: Two con­crete ex­am­ples.

NunoSempereOct 4, 2019, 7:56 PM
102 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Brigid Slipka: Im­pact vs. prin­ci­ple at the Amer­i­can Civil Liber­ties Union

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Es­ti­mates on ex­pected effects of move­ment/​pres­sure group/​field build­ing?

jackvaFeb 15, 2024, 11:35 AM
39 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

What the EA com­mu­nity can learn from the rise of the neoliberals

Kerry_VaughanDec 6, 2016, 6:21 PM
55 points
10 comments20 min readEA link

Self-Sus­tain­ing Fields Liter­a­ture Re­view: Tech­nol­ogy Fore­cast­ing, How Aca­demic Fields Emerge, and the Science of Science

Megan KinnimentSep 6, 2021, 3:04 PM
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Bibliog­ra­phy of EA writ­ings about fields and move­ments of in­ter­est to EA

PabloFeb 21, 2022, 3:11 PM
98 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What is the clos­est thing you know to EA that isn’t EA?

Nathan YoungAug 14, 2021, 1:31 PM
25 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_HarrisJun 30, 2021, 5:05 PM
123 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] What are some ex­am­ples of suc­cess­ful so­cial change?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 22, 2021, 10:51 PM
31 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Some thoughts about build­ing al­li­ances with the en­vi­ron­men­tal movement

Animal Charity EvaluatorsSep 17, 2020, 1:34 AM
8 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

LizkaJun 9, 2021, 4:39 AM
151 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

Can my self-worth com­pare to my in­stru­men­tal value?

C TilliOct 11, 2020, 7:32 AM
122 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the Fair Trade Movement

Jamie_HarrisApr 2, 2021, 10:51 AM
44 points
0 comments41 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

A case for the effec­tive­ness of protest

JamesÖzNov 29, 2021, 11:50 AM
123 points
27 comments67 min readEA link

What com­plex­ity sci­ence and simu­la­tion have to offer effec­tive altruism

Rory GreigJun 8, 2021, 9:50 AM
64 points
15 comments22 min readEA link

Help me find the crux be­tween EA/​XR and Progress Studies

jasoncrawfordJun 2, 2021, 6:47 PM
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

A sketch of leader and mem­ber-or­ganised movements

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Dec 16, 2022, 6:01 PM
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Bruce Friedrich: From ag­i­ta­tor to innovator

EA GlobalJun 8, 2018, 7:15 AM
9 points
1 comment16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How the Jains built a cul­ture of re­spect for non­hu­man animals

siwani agrawalJul 11, 2023, 6:51 PM
38 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

EA is Differ­ent?

D0TheMathMar 13, 2024, 2:48 AM
−3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cochrane: a quick and dirty summary

EdoAradJul 14, 2019, 5:46 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Books on so­cial move­ments?

michelSep 17, 2022, 6:27 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2021 End of Year Summary

AliNov 26, 2021, 2:40 PM
66 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Eval­u­at­ing Life Ex­ten­sion Ad­vo­cacy Foun­da­tion

Emanuele_AscaniSep 30, 2020, 5:46 PM
20 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

The Kin­der­trans­port—re­view of a his­tor­i­cal al­tru­is­tic movement

Matt GoodmanAug 7, 2022, 1:49 PM
30 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What are aca­demic dis­ci­plines, move­ments or or­gani­sa­tions that you think EA should try to learn more from?

freedomandutilityMar 20, 2022, 6:21 PM
15 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

What Helped the Voice­less? His­tor­i­cal Case Studies

MauOct 11, 2020, 3:38 AM
129 points
16 comments88 min readEA link

A new place to dis­cuss cog­ni­tive sci­ence, ethics and hu­man alignment

Daniel_FriedrichNov 4, 2022, 2:34 PM
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
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[Question] What so­cial move­ments can EA be com­pared to?

MarisaJun 11, 2019, 11:57 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Some re­search ideas on the his­tory of so­cial movements

rosehadsharMar 1, 2022, 8:52 AM
45 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Smart Move­ments Start Aca­demic Dis­ci­plines

ColdButtonIssuesSep 25, 2022, 3:58 PM
121 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

FYI there is a Ger­man in­sti­tute study­ing so­ciolog­i­cal as­pects of ex­is­ten­tial risk

Max GörlitzFeb 12, 2023, 5:35 PM
77 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

EA is too New & Im­por­tant to Schism

Wil PerkinsFeb 23, 2023, 2:56 PM
59 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

Unions for AI safety?

dEAsignSep 24, 2023, 12:13 AM
7 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

PR risks come from the extremes

freedomandutilityJul 2, 2023, 1:03 AM
29 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Un­veiling the Longter­mism Frame­work in Is­lam: Urg­ing Mus­lims to Em­brace Fu­ture-Ori­ented Values through ‘Is­lamic Longter­mism’

Zayn AAug 15, 2023, 11:34 AM
83 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

Go Mo­bi­lize? Les­sons from GM Protests for Paus­ing AI

Charlie HarrisonOct 24, 2023, 3:01 PM
48 points
11 comments31 min readEA link

An ex­pert sur­vey on so­cial move­ments and protest

JamesÖzJul 12, 2023, 2:08 PM
93 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Gen­eral sup­port for “Gen­eral EA”

Arthur Malone🔸Jul 26, 2023, 9:37 PM
157 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Mass Me­dia, Pro­pa­ganda, and So­cial In­fluence: Ev­i­dence of Effec­tive­ness from Courch­esne et al. (2021)

Janet PauketatJul 10, 2023, 8:10 PM
13 points
0 comments30 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Case For Civil Di­sobe­di­ence For The AI Movement

Murali ThoppilApr 24, 2023, 1:07 PM
16 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(murali42e.substack.com)

Naive ap­pli­ca­tion of the ITN frame­work on a situ­a­tion like the one in Gaza might lead us wrong

C TilliNov 13, 2023, 8:00 PM
23 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Effi­cacy of AI Ac­tivism: Have We Ever Said No?

Charlie HarrisonOct 27, 2023, 4:52 PM
78 points
25 comments20 min readEA link

My ten­ta­tive best guess on how EAs and Ra­tion­al­ists some­times turn crazy

HabrykaJun 21, 2023, 4:11 AM
160 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How use­ful is it to use a slav­ery/​fac­tory farm­ing com­par­i­son as a de­ci­sion mak­ing heuris­tic?

yanni kyriacosAug 11, 2023, 10:38 PM
11 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ve­gans as an In­ter­est Group

Dylan RichardsonMar 17, 2024, 9:29 PM
5 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(dylanrichardson.substack.com)

More ev­i­dence X-risk am­plifies ac­tion against cur­rent AI harms

Daniel_FriedrichDec 22, 2023, 3:21 PM
27 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(osf.io)

Why not so­cial­ism?

NikhilVenkateshMay 15, 2024, 1:08 PM
78 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

How To In­crease The Im­pact Of The EA Com­mu­nity (II): Draw­ing In­spira­tion From The Past

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)Jan 1, 2025, 10:08 AM
49 points
6 comments14 min readEA link
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