Top-of-funnel community growth in EA is slower than it could and should be. At the same time, EA is relatively underrepresented in intellectual discourse compared to newer and smaller movements like Progress Studies.
These sentences make sense coming from a marketing executive eager to make sure that their employer, the EA Corporation, triumphs over its rival Progress Studies. These sentences don’t make sense from the standpoint of trying to figure out how to do the most good possible, as contrasted to assuming the effectiveness of “Effective Altruism”-branded institutions. Why would the value of a blog to the world depend on whether it’s affiliated with “EA” or newer and smaller movements? If Progress Studies is already putting out better blogging than “us”, maybe “we” should be funding them?
These sentences make sense coming from a marketing executive eager to make sure that their employer, the EA Corporation, triumphs over its rival Progress Studies. These sentences don’t make sense from the standpoint of trying to figure out how to do the most good possible, as contrasted to assuming the effectiveness of “Effective Altruism”-branded institutions. Why would the value of a blog to the world depend on whether it’s affiliated with “EA” or newer and smaller movements? If Progress Studies is already putting out better blogging than “us”, maybe “we” should be funding them?