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Dear Andy,

Thank you very much for your comment. That sounds like a pretty cool project! I will definitely be in touch (when I get a look at the above suggestions and get my own head sorted out).

Cheers!

Awesome Jonas! I will check out your work and get back to you asap! Please do shoot me a private msg -- would love to get in touch!

Thanks, Ben! I didn't know about this project. Will check it out!

Dear Sanjay,

Thank you for your post. Much appreciated!

I did not know of your project. Sounds awesome and I will definitely look into it. As to your comments:

RE: Social media I am personally more bullish about this than my original post might suggest. In fact, I think the things you mention could be powerful motivators for increased giving. The reason why I sound bearish is that friends I have talked to were somewhat on the fence about the idea. And I can follow their reasoning: They/I fear that the social media integration might become "unhealthy&quo... (read more)

I have no idea, actually. My intuition is that there is one...or that there will become one. Or at least that there ought to be one.

Maybe the market can be created through social media? (see Sanjay's post below).

Thanks David! Much appreciated!

Maybe I am missing something here, but -- given your post and your arguments -- how does it follow that the EA movement should not endorse case-specific effective altruism?

If I understand the "EA mission" correctly, it is about doing the most good in total. The original poster seems to believe that EA endorsing case-specific effective altruism will do more good than if they don't (overall). Hence, if you disagree, you should argue why it would be better for EA to not endorse this. Where am I making a mistake in this logic?

My own intuition (which ... (read more)

Great, thanks for sharing! I don't use reddit enough, but will try to swing by regularly.

Hi Ian,

Great and thought-provoking post. Thank you very much for taking the time to write it!

I will think about it and might respond at length later, but for now, let me ask you this: How do you propose the EA movement go about introducing "case-specific effective altruism"? Do you imagine several official sub-groups, each dedicated to a specific cause?* Or do you simply want EA to acknowledge that case-specific effective altruism is a good thing, so that people can set up their own domain-specific EA groups if they like?

In sum, a few words on yo... (read more)

This was a good write-up. Thank you very much for doing it, Sean -- and good luck with the future developments. I'm very much looking forward to following the research coming out of CSER!