[note, not a utilitarian, but I strive to be effective, and I’m somewhat altruistic. I don’t speak for any movement or group.]
Effective Altruism strives for the maximization of objective value, not emotional sentiment.
What? There’s no such thing as objective value. 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.
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.
[note, not a utilitarian, but I strive to be effective, and I’m somewhat altruistic. I don’t speak for any movement or group.]
What? There’s no such thing as objective value. 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.
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.