The Swiss folks may have done that. But I think the major organizations, like GiveWell, Giving What We Can, and 80,000 Hours, are focused on apolitical causes like global health, if you judge from their lists of recommended charities.
I don’t think 80,000 hours advice people who seek it’s guidance against going into politics.
GiveWell states that they focus on global health issues because those issues provide a good evidence base.
I think Giving What We Can says that it’s members can make donation to any charity of their choosing.
Statistically your income is more influenced by which society you happen to be born in than anything you do. If you believe Acemoglu and Robinson, it’s the institutions that matter for economic growth.
“Should we do liquid democracy?” is an import question when it comes to designing institutions. It’s not a question that left or right in the traditional sense of those words.
In software design a lot of thought went into structuring information and valuing simplicity. Getting that kind of thinking into law making would do a lot of good but it’s no mainstream topic.
Opposing corn subsidies isn’t a right or left issue. Especially if you do it on the ground that the subsidies make meat too cheap and you want people to eat less meat.
Fighting software patents and patents trolls isn’t a right vs. left issue.
Whether or not you have legal responsibility when you route traffic of other people over your own computer isn’t a right vs. left issue.
Pushing evidence-based policy making isn’t a right vs. left issue.
Ben Goldacre’s fight to get trial data out in the open is highly political in nature. You could label it “socialism” to force big pharma to release their knowledge into the commons but I think that heavily screws with the nature of the conflict. I think that even people who see themselves politically on the right are likely to support Goldacres agenda.
But with political activism I don’t really see how.
What do you mean with “political activism”. The term is frequently used by people who want to signal that they care about an issue but who aren’t willing to actually to something that has political effect.
Saul Alinsky would be someone who thought a lot about how to do political activism. It starts with doing community building. In the EA example that means at this point in time most of the activism resources should go towards internal affairs of the EA movement.
I don’t think 80,000 hours advice people who seek it’s guidance against going into politics.
GiveWell states that they focus on global health issues because those issues provide a good evidence base.
I think Giving What We Can says that it’s members can make donation to any charity of their choosing.
“Should we do liquid democracy?” is an import question when it comes to designing institutions. It’s not a question that left or right in the traditional sense of those words.
In software design a lot of thought went into structuring information and valuing simplicity. Getting that kind of thinking into law making would do a lot of good but it’s no mainstream topic.
Opposing corn subsidies isn’t a right or left issue. Especially if you do it on the ground that the subsidies make meat too cheap and you want people to eat less meat.
Fighting software patents and patents trolls isn’t a right vs. left issue.
Whether or not you have legal responsibility when you route traffic of other people over your own computer isn’t a right vs. left issue.
Pushing evidence-based policy making isn’t a right vs. left issue.
Ben Goldacre’s fight to get trial data out in the open is highly political in nature. You could label it “socialism” to force big pharma to release their knowledge into the commons but I think that heavily screws with the nature of the conflict. I think that even people who see themselves politically on the right are likely to support Goldacres agenda.
What do you mean with “political activism”. The term is frequently used by people who want to signal that they care about an issue but who aren’t willing to actually to something that has political effect.
Saul Alinsky would be someone who thought a lot about how to do political activism. It starts with doing community building. In the EA example that means at this point in time most of the activism resources should go towards internal affairs of the EA movement.