There are over 100 edits in this article. Many, especially of the large ones are made by David Gerard, but there is also Greenrd and others.
It would be nice to have better tools for exploring wiki history, for example, if I could select a sentence or two, and get a history of this specific sentence, like only the edits that modified it, and preferably get all the historical versions of that sentence on a single page along with the user names and links to edits, so that I do not need to click on each edit separately and look for the sentence.
It is also interesting to compare Wikipedia and RationalWiki articles on the same topic.
Wikipedia narrative is that EA is a high-status “philosophical and social movement” responsible for over $400 000 000 donations in 2019, based on principles of “impartiality, cause neutrality, cost-effectiveness, and counterfactual reasoning”, and its prominent causes are “global poverty, animal welfare, and risks to the survival of humanity over the long-term future”.
Rationalist community is mentioned briefly:
A related group that attracts some effective altruists is the rationalist community.
In addition, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute is focused on the more narrow mission of managing advanced artificial intelligence.
Other contributions were [...] the creation of internet forums such as LessWrong.
Furthermore, Machine Intelligence Research Institute is included in the “Effective Altruism” infobox at the bottom of the page. Mention of Eliezer Yudkowsky was removed as not properly sourced (fair point, I guess). The Wikiquote page on EA quotes Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
RationalWiki narrative is that “The philosophical underpinnings mostly come from philosopher Peter Singer [but] This did not start the effective altruism subculture”. “The effective altruism subculture — as opposed to the concept of altruism that is effective — originated around LessWrong” “The ideas have been around a while, but the current subculture that calls itself Effective Altruism got a big push from MIRI and its friends in the LessWrong community”, but the problem is that rationalists believed that MIRI is an effective charity, which is a form of Pascal’s Mugging.
“effective altruists currently tend to think that the most important causes to focus on are global poverty, factory farming, and the long-term future of life on Earth. In practice, this amounts to complaining when people try to solve local problems, feeling bad when people eat hamburgers, and sending money to Eliezer Yudkowsky, respectively.”
...so, my impression is that according to Wikipedia, EA is high-status and mostly unrelated to the rationalist community; and according to RationalWiki, EA was effectively started by rationalist community and is low-status.
Is RationalWiki still mostly “David Gerrard’s Thoughts and Notes”? This kind of writeup shouldn’t come as a surprise.
There are over 100 edits in this article. Many, especially of the large ones are made by David Gerard, but there is also Greenrd and others.
It would be nice to have better tools for exploring wiki history, for example, if I could select a sentence or two, and get a history of this specific sentence, like only the edits that modified it, and preferably get all the historical versions of that sentence on a single page along with the user names and links to edits, so that I do not need to click on each edit separately and look for the sentence.
It is also interesting to compare Wikipedia and RationalWiki articles on the same topic.
Wikipedia narrative is that EA is a high-status “philosophical and social movement” responsible for over $400 000 000 donations in 2019, based on principles of “impartiality, cause neutrality, cost-effectiveness, and counterfactual reasoning”, and its prominent causes are “global poverty, animal welfare, and risks to the survival of humanity over the long-term future”.
Rationalist community is mentioned briefly:
A related group that attracts some effective altruists is the rationalist community.
In addition, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute is focused on the more narrow mission of managing advanced artificial intelligence.
Other contributions were [...] the creation of internet forums such as LessWrong.
Furthermore, Machine Intelligence Research Institute is included in the “Effective Altruism” infobox at the bottom of the page. Mention of Eliezer Yudkowsky was removed as not properly sourced (fair point, I guess). The Wikiquote page on EA quotes Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
RationalWiki narrative is that “The philosophical underpinnings mostly come from philosopher Peter Singer [but] This did not start the effective altruism subculture”. “The effective altruism subculture — as opposed to the concept of altruism that is effective — originated around LessWrong” “The ideas have been around a while, but the current subculture that calls itself Effective Altruism got a big push from MIRI and its friends in the LessWrong community”, but the problem is that rationalists believed that MIRI is an effective charity, which is a form of Pascal’s Mugging.
“effective altruists currently tend to think that the most important causes to focus on are global poverty, factory farming, and the long-term future of life on Earth. In practice, this amounts to complaining when people try to solve local problems, feeling bad when people eat hamburgers, and sending money to Eliezer Yudkowsky, respectively.”
...so, my impression is that according to Wikipedia, EA is high-status and mostly unrelated to the rationalist community; and according to RationalWiki, EA was effectively started by rationalist community and is low-status.