Jiro comments on [Thought Experiment] If Human Extinction “Improves the World,” Should We Oppose It? Species Bias and the Utilitarian Challenge

[Jiro]

EA strives for maximization of MEASURABLE and SPECIFIED value(s), but the value dimensions need not be (I’d argue CAN not be) objectively chosen.

That implies that if I want to make things better for Americans specifically, that would be EA.

[Dagon]

I don’t think EA is a trademarked or protected term (I could be wrong). I’m definitely the wrong person to decide what qualifies.

For myself, I do give a lot of support to local (city, state mostly) short-term (less than a decade, say) causes. It’s entirely up to each of us how to split our efforts among all the changes in our future lightcone we try to improve.