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idfubar (Rishi Ugersain Chopra đ¸)
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Any luck? (Happy to share first-hand perspective, if thatâs of any help⌠but âcontext is keyââso just wanting to roll with your post & its momentum, i.e. before filling that part in...)
PS: Per your other recent post (and a priori knowledge of animal advocacy roles being both highly sought after & scarce), the results youâve managed to achieve thus far are ânothing to sneeze atâ! (Seriously, half of your applications resulted in some expression of further interestâand half of those an actual interview; thatâs unbelievable!)
7. The communities differ in key personality traits and demographics. Alignment skews much more heavily male (9:1) and younger compared to EA (2:1 male:female).
Though the article does disclaim this point ever-so-slightly âŚ
âWhile this gender distribution is not unfamiliar in engineering spaces âŚâ
⌠it would be difficult to understate how profoundly a simple skew in gender can profoundly skew everything that results therefrom; one should keep the âbase-rate fallacyâ concept in mind when drawing conclusions (as the sample may/âmay not reflect the EA community as a whole, e.g. in the case of the forums introducing an implicit bias in sample). Note the lack of comments pertaining to the findings regarding gender...!
Miriam-Webster says âauthenticâ is the 2023 âword of the yearâ; how apt! (Note how a theme running through just about each individual comment is what the given poster was made to feel, i.e. the way in which your spirit resonated with them. Human beings remember how others make us feelâand all the more so when that authenticity resonates in interactions which are personal and empathetic.)
In short: independent of the material (quantitative) success of GWWC, there is much to be thankful for with respect to such leadership (hereâs to hoping GWWC is as lucky in successionâLuke Freeman is one-of-a-kind!)...
This thread gets at some part of the crux of the matterâbut doesnât illuminate it completely.
As a moral philosopher, Peter Singer would have a hard time being taken seriously were he not vegetarian/âvegan: too many people live in this world without consuming animalsâand, culturally, there is little to sustain the practice aside from norms (most of which are quite far from any economic defensibility, to say nothing of their non-secular roots). Indeed (per the original postingâs conclusion), such a Peter Singer would have a hard time taking himself seriouslyâbecause he descends from a long line of moral philosophers (and, indeed, activists) who have all recognized the very same truthâand can see how it manifests in their world. One could suspect folks who align with EA feel much the same, i.e. that being true (perhaps just) to oneâs own self is the ticket.
Will the program be offered again @Cian M?
Not âchanges your characterâ butâratherâreveals character; itâs called an âaskâ because the call to sacrifice is both general and (per the individualâs sacrifice) personalâand it serves many functions (as mentioned).
In any case, one of the other replies (from â@Ben Auerâ) mentioned that âValue drift is not about losing sight of whether your actions are effective, but losing the motivation to care about whether your actions are effective.â; in other words, what is being called a âsacrifice portfolioâ isâin truthâeffort (i.e. not a portfolio of sacrifices but a set of willful conscious actions, often at abstaining from a mentality as much as a behavior). One can argue the merits, but there is nothing compulsory thereaboutsâwhich is why people undertake such effort voluntarily, sometimes take a break, and often return after a break (gamification & a high score isnât the ultimate goal).