Agreed that putting emotionally-oriented people into research positions would be a risk, but let’s be honest, they won’t want to go there.
Regarding the second point, the whole goal of the post I was making above is to appeal to people’s emotions to cause them to care about effectiveness.
The more emotionally-oriented people will not be good at determining effectiveness. But if we can get them to care about effectiveness, not cute puppies, that’s where we can make a huge difference in their spending decisions. They would be highly unlikely to become leaders within EA, but their donations can then be powerfully shaped by EA recommendations
Agreed that putting emotionally-oriented people into research positions would be a risk, but let’s be honest, they won’t want to go there.
Regarding the second point, the whole goal of the post I was making above is to appeal to people’s emotions to cause them to care about effectiveness.
The more emotionally-oriented people will not be good at determining effectiveness. But if we can get them to care about effectiveness, not cute puppies, that’s where we can make a huge difference in their spending decisions. They would be highly unlikely to become leaders within EA, but their donations can then be powerfully shaped by EA recommendations