And my reaction was: this is so bad for PR. I mean, the whole message of effective altruism is kinda “instead of donating to cute puppies, we use the same money to heal children with malaria”.
I know several students are working hard to gain the skills necessary to make big impacts, especially on XRisk reduction. They identify as EAs, and I think it would be the wrong move to tell them they’re not “real EAs” because they aren’t donating money to EA charities.
I don’t think the whole message about effective altruism is about how to donate money. 80,000 hours for example recently wrote Why you should focus more on talent gaps, not funding gaps.
Exactly.
I know several students are working hard to gain the skills necessary to make big impacts, especially on XRisk reduction. They identify as EAs, and I think it would be the wrong move to tell them they’re not “real EAs” because they aren’t donating money to EA charities.