Shrilaxmi 🔸

64 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)India
shrilaxmipatil.com

Participation
3

  • Completed the Introductory EA Virtual Program
  • Attended an EAGx conference
  • Attended an EA Global conference

Comments
5

Strong upvote from me, and I especially love this:

"We think more folks in EA should try to do their own small cost-effectiveness calculations for organizations that might get overlooked by the main funders. It takes some work, but there are a few benefits:

  • Discovery is hard, you can help chip away at it. There’s a chance you’ll find an organization that’s been overlooked because it doesn’t fit neatly into the current funnel of evaluation."

Interestingly, having come across this a couple of years into learning about EA and interacting with people interested in EA, I think my "proficiency" in some of these skills has increased. I expect that this is because I now have many friends and co-workers who are good at a lot of the things listed above. So it now seems "dumb" for me to not be agentic or to not have reasoning transparency.

I like this way of thinking about EA because I see it more like a process than an ideology. When I'm trying to explain to friends and acquaintances, I tend to say "I am interested in effective altruism," and talk about what trying to make decisions based on evidence and reason and expected positive impact could look like.Â