Yeah, I definitely agree that that’s a good idea with any initialisations that won’t already be known to the vast majority of one’s readers (e.g., I wouldn’t bother with US or UK, but would with APA). In this case, I just copied and pasted the post from the EA Forum, where I do think the vast majority of readers would know what “EA” means—but I should’ve used the expanded form “effective altruism” the first time in the LessWrong version. I’ve now edited that.
Yeah, I definitely agree that that’s a good idea with any initialisations that won’t already be known to the vast majority of one’s readers (e.g., I wouldn’t bother with US or UK, but would with APA). In this case, I just copied and pasted the post from the EA Forum, where I do think the vast majority of readers would know what “EA” means—but I should’ve used the expanded form “effective altruism” the first time in the LessWrong version. I’ve now edited that.