Thanks for sharing the news, James! The success of 2020 was surprising and exciting. We plan on publishing an update on our room for more funding before the end of November, and we’ll have much more detail to share then. A few high-level points we plan to address:
Room for more funding has gone up significantly. This has been a major focus of our work in 2021, and we’ve succeeded.
We expect our funds raised will continue to increase rapidly.
We’ll share more details and answer further questions once our update is live.
Really appreciate you taking the time to write this up! My initial reaction is that the central point about mindset-shifting seems really right.
My proposal is to explicitly talk about two kinds of EA (these may need catchier names)
It seems (to me) “low-level” and “high-level” could read as value-laden in a way that might make people practicing “low-level” EA (especially in cause areas not already embraced by lots of other EAs) feel like they’re not viewed as “real” EAs and so work at cross-purposes with the tent-broadening goal of the proposal. Quick brainstorm of terms that make some kind of descriptive distinction instead:
cause-blind EA vs. cause-specific or cause-limited EA
(I work at GiveWell)
Thanks for sharing the news, James! The success of 2020 was surprising and exciting. We plan on publishing an update on our room for more funding before the end of November, and we’ll have much more detail to share then. A few high-level points we plan to address:
We’ll share more details and answer further questions once our update is live.
Really appreciate you taking the time to write this up! My initial reaction is that the central point about mindset-shifting seems really right.
It seems (to me) “low-level” and “high-level” could read as value-laden in a way that might make people practicing “low-level” EA (especially in cause areas not already embraced by lots of other EAs) feel like they’re not viewed as “real” EAs and so work at cross-purposes with the tent-broadening goal of the proposal. Quick brainstorm of terms that make some kind of descriptive distinction instead:
(Thoughts/views only my own, not my employer’s.)