From virtues perspective, the group organizer should be worried if they are not on the path to turn themselves from a thinker to an idea salesperson.
From the structure of your argument, I infer, you want to leave out the “not” from that sentence, right?
From virtues perspective, the group organizer should be worried if they are on the path to turn themselves from a thinker to an idea salesperson.
I think I don’t really get the psychology of most people here. Like, when I first heard about effective altruism, I’d have loved to meet with someone who could get me up to speed rather quickly. I think the only problem with this, just like with real salespeople, is that you have to second guess yourself how much they are in it for their own instead of your benefit. This means I want to figure out how much someone is genuinely excited about the whole topic. For example, I recently sent out some invitations to our local EA meetup to some of my friends. Some of them have never heard about EA before. Am I coming across as spammy if I invite someone for the third time, because the person gave a plausible explanation why they couldn’t come the last two times? If someone does not reply, should I remind them? In practice, I am mostly thinking about whether the person would enjoy the meetup. The potential impact of the person does go into my calculus whether it is worth the effort for me, given that I already have lots of friends with whom I can talk about EA topics.
From the structure of your argument, I infer, you want to leave out the “not” from that sentence, right?
I think I don’t really get the psychology of most people here. Like, when I first heard about effective altruism, I’d have loved to meet with someone who could get me up to speed rather quickly. I think the only problem with this, just like with real salespeople, is that you have to second guess yourself how much they are in it for their own instead of your benefit. This means I want to figure out how much someone is genuinely excited about the whole topic. For example, I recently sent out some invitations to our local EA meetup to some of my friends. Some of them have never heard about EA before. Am I coming across as spammy if I invite someone for the third time, because the person gave a plausible explanation why they couldn’t come the last two times? If someone does not reply, should I remind them? In practice, I am mostly thinking about whether the person would enjoy the meetup. The potential impact of the person does go into my calculus whether it is worth the effort for me, given that I already have lots of friends with whom I can talk about EA topics.