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In my eyes, I have not made an effective impact yet in any cause area, especially biosecurity or public health, and yet I think compared to most 18 year olds I have started making choices that will set me up to have an effective career and mindset, plus I have been gaining comm building skills throughout my work.
Next year @Jian Xin Lim🔹 kindly offered for me to take over EABath (when I start uni) and I also help out a bit at Leaf. And it got me thinking
What is the ideal outcome of a HEA? Are all HEAs on the same path? Say someone took on all reasoning, and chose earn to give and donated millions to GiveWell (think similar to FTX without any integrity issues in terms of involvement), if all EAs did that we'd get diminishing returns on the top charities, we'd lose the community, other cause areas may suffer and also it just would feel a bit of an afterthought. And yet would we consider that individual a HEA if his reasoning for all the earning and donation aligned with the 4 tenets and had that idea of helping others effectively?
Compared to someone who maybe is against animal welfare issues. If that person earned to give as a head of factories with poor conditions, they may lower costs and conditions to donate more (let's say purely to donate more) whilst the person concerned with animal welfare who is also an EA may try to do the opposite. So are they both HEAs? Do we have a metric?
Just some rough thoughts swirling around, nothing concrete or important but would love to hear
It means highly-engaged EA. I think that the term isn't used as much as it was a few years ago, but it can be helping in a movement-building/strategic context for folks that are very central to effective altruism, and it still serves as a convenient label to differentiate different stages in the 'funnel.' But I think that it isn't terribly common these days, and I expect that plenty of people who are quite involved in EA wouldn't recognize "HEA" it or know what it means.
HEAs
In my eyes, I have not made an effective impact yet in any cause area, especially biosecurity or public health, and yet I think compared to most 18 year olds I have started making choices that will set me up to have an effective career and mindset, plus I have been gaining comm building skills throughout my work.
Next year @Jian Xin Lim🔹 kindly offered for me to take over EABath (when I start uni) and I also help out a bit at Leaf. And it got me thinking
What is the ideal outcome of a HEA? Are all HEAs on the same path? Say someone took on all reasoning, and chose earn to give and donated millions to GiveWell (think similar to FTX without any integrity issues in terms of involvement), if all EAs did that we'd get diminishing returns on the top charities, we'd lose the community, other cause areas may suffer and also it just would feel a bit of an afterthought. And yet would we consider that individual a HEA if his reasoning for all the earning and donation aligned with the 4 tenets and had that idea of helping others effectively?
Compared to someone who maybe is against animal welfare issues. If that person earned to give as a head of factories with poor conditions, they may lower costs and conditions to donate more (let's say purely to donate more) whilst the person concerned with animal welfare who is also an EA may try to do the opposite. So are they both HEAs? Do we have a metric?
Just some rough thoughts swirling around, nothing concrete or important but would love to hear
What is an HEA?
It means highly-engaged EA. I think that the term isn't used as much as it was a few years ago, but it can be helping in a movement-building/strategic context for folks that are very central to effective altruism, and it still serves as a convenient label to differentiate different stages in the 'funnel.' But I think that it isn't terribly common these days, and I expect that plenty of people who are quite involved in EA wouldn't recognize "HEA" it or know what it means.