A bit about me in case someone wants to connect 👋👋
I’m a SWE with 5 yoe working in early-stage startups. I’m quite ambitious about EA and I’m currently applying to Charity Entrepreneurship.
Some things I like: sports, concerts, startups, Twitter, Dwarkesh (huge fan), Derek Guy, walkable and cyclable cities, pedestrian streets, lentil dahl.
Joey has answered this before elsewhere
I haven't been able to find it. Do you remember where you read it?
cc: @Joey
Also, donating will help with persuading people to be more altruistic in general. In psychology you have this concept of a costly signal, which causes people to take your (related) ideas much more seriously.
Are you confident about this?
Donating an organ might seem quite extreme, possibly making the average person view you as 'very weird,' which could have the opposite effect.
The meat-eater problem is under-discussed.
I've spent more than 500 hours consuming EA content and I had never encountered the meat-eater problem until today.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/meat-eater-problem
(I had sometimes thought about the problem, but I didn't even know it had a name)
I agree that this testimonial adds credibility to Epoch, but it raises concerns about whether their work has negative impacts.