One of the most stressful situations a lab rat or human can be in is a position of responsibility with no power. Adopting an EA identity confers a sense of responsibility for oneself—a tremendous, sickening amount in my personal experience. I hope publicising one’s new-found status as an EA helps confer a moral superiority among one’s associates that leads to a fitting amount of influence!
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Many of the comments here raise concerns about the method and consequences of being public about your goods deeds.
This is a message to Effective Altruists here, for whom doing good deeds has become a noun—part of their identity.
Some Pick Up Artists use the term ‘grounding’ to convey their identity through a well constructed routine. Some commonalities Lin identifies in these routines are:
A short, memorable brand for what you routinely do: “Rockstar, Entrepreneur, Magician, Speaker, Writer, Hacker”
That is:
Effective Altruist (preferred, but only for well-informed circles)
philanthropists (if you are high enough status but in uninformed circles)
Socially conscious (else)
How you got from being a normal kid to your dream role
for me it’s that I visited poorer countries as a kid, and was physically and verbally abused regularly by a parent and developed a highly polarised attitude to harm suffering and self-reliance. The former 2 made me altruistic, the latter 1 developed my effectivenes.
What you are doing now in relation to show you are/identity
Your future plans for continuing this journey
Telling all this with genuine passion, intrigue and enthusiasm.
I want to raise two points here:
(1)
One of the most stressful situations a lab rat or human can be in is a position of responsibility with no power. Adopting an EA identity confers a sense of responsibility for oneself—a tremendous, sickening amount in my personal experience. I hope publicising one’s new-found status as an EA helps confer a moral superiority among one’s associates that leads to a fitting amount of influence!
(2)
Many of the comments here raise concerns about the method and consequences of being public about your goods deeds.
This is a message to Effective Altruists here, for whom doing good deeds has become a noun—part of their identity.
Some Pick Up Artists use the term ‘grounding’ to convey their identity through a well constructed routine. Some commonalities Lin identifies in these routines are:
That is:
Effective Altruist (preferred, but only for well-informed circles)
philanthropists (if you are high enough status but in uninformed circles)
Socially conscious (else)
for me it’s that I visited poorer countries as a kid, and was physically and verbally abused regularly by a parent and developed a highly polarised attitude to harm suffering and self-reliance. The former 2 made me altruistic, the latter 1 developed my effectivenes.